Three CEE Scholars named “Highly Cited Researchers 2020”
Congratulations to Prof. Kwok-Wing Chau (Engineering), Prof. Shun-cheng Lee (Cross-Field) and Dr Daniel CW Tsang (Environment/Ecology) for being listed as Highly Cited Researcher 2020 by Clarivate Analytics. It identifies researchers who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields over the last decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in the Web of Science™. Of the world’s scientists and social scientists, Clarivate™ Highly Cited Researchers are truly one in 1,000. This is definitely a recognition to their high quality publication and scientific impact in the fields.
Prof. Kwok-Wing Chau was awarded a BSc in civil engineering with First Class Honours from the University of Hong Kong, an MSc in civil engineering with distinction from the University of Hong Kong, and a PhD from the University of Queensland in Australia. He is very active in undertaking research works and the scope of his research interests is very broad, covering numerical flow modeling, water quality modeling, hydrological modeling, knowledge-based system development and artificial intelligence applications. Prof. Chau has published over 250 Science Citation Index journal papers and the total number of non-self citations is over 10,000. He acquired many prestigious research awards: 2008 Natural Science Class 1 Award conferred by Ministry of Education in China, 2009 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Publication Achievement (Overall performance in citation in the past 10 years), 2009 National Natural Science Class 2 Award, Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Publication Achievement (Highly-cited papers) in various years, and 2018 – 2020 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics.
Prof. Shun-cheng Lee earned a Doctorate in Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. His research focus includes chemical characteristics, sources, vehicle emission profiles, indoor cooking, carbon aerosols, and toxic gaseous pollutants. He has completed the comprehensive emission inventory and source emission profiles of vehicles, cooking, ships, and household cleaners in Hong Kong. He has published 308 papers in the international journals, being cited by SCI in total of 19,161 times (h-index: 78). He was awarded as Highly Cited Researcher (cross-field) by Clarivate in 2018 – 2020. In 2019, he was awarded as Fellow of Asian Aerosol Research Assembly (AARA). Prof. Lee is the Associate Head and Odour Lab In Charge at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of PolyU.
Dr Daniel CW Tsang is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland in Australia. He was Visiting Scholar at Ghent University in Belgium and Stanford University in the US, Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and Post-doctoral Fellow at Imperial College London in the UK. Dan’s research group strives to develop low-carbon solutions to ensure sustainable development and circular economy. Dan has published over 400 research articles in top 10% journals (54 highly cited papers, 4 hot papers, 10000+ citations) and served as Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of various environmental science and engineering journals. Dan is the Chair and Organizer of many international conferences such as 5th Asia Pacific Biochar Conference (APBC2021).
