BSE Chair Professor Appointed as Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Smart Building

The Department of Building Services Engineering (BSE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is honoured to announce that Ir Prof. Wang Shengwei, Chair Professor of BSE, has been appointed as Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Smart Building (潘 樂陶慈善基金智能建築教授) under the University’s Endowed Professorship Scheme commencing on 1 April 2020. PolyU established the Endowed Professorship Scheme in 2012 to honour distinguished scholars for their outstanding academic and research achievements.

Ir Prof. Wang obtained his BEng and MSc from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 1983 and 1986 respectively, and his PhD from University of Liege in 1993. He joined PolyU in the same year as assistant professor, and promoted to associate professor in 2000, to professor in 2005 and to the Chair Professor of Building Services Engineering in 2008. He is a Fellow of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), and a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). He is also an associate editor of the academic journal of ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers), “Science and Technology for the Built Environment”, and the guest/adjunct professors of ten universities in China and USA.

He is leading the Building Energy and Automation Research Laboratory in PolyU. He is one of the leading and most fruitful scholars internationally on building energy and intelligent buildings in the subject areas including: building energy system smart and energy-efficient control, energy system optimal design and energy diagnosis, building demand response and grid-responsive buildings as well as building automation technologies. He obtained over 40 research and technology development funds, including 16 general research funds (GRF) from Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), an Overseas Youth Talent cooperation grant of National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He published over 300 papers in refereed journals (including over 230 paper in journals cited by SCI). He was also one of the top 150 highly-cited scholars on “Energy Science and Engineering”. He is also one of the most successful scholars in PolyU in integrating academic research with industrial applications. He received about HKD 20 million from industry for applied energy research and application projects. He participated a large number of energy saving and optimization projects for commercial and industrial buildings, including large landmark building such as International Commerce Centre (ICC), achieved energy savings of 15%-42% and maximum annual energy saving of over ten million kWh per individual building.

Congratulations to Ir Prof. Wang for the honour and thanks for Ir Prof. Wang’s continued outstanding academic and research contributions to the Department and University.