Academic Staff
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Thermofluid; Energy conversion and storage technologies; Advanced materials |
| Title | Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Multiphase and multicomponent complex systems with micro- and nanoscale; Aerosol science & technology; Combustion & emissions formation; Transport and formation of nano/microparticles and gaseous pollutants; On-road vehicle emission measurement, control and modelling techniques; Thermal-fluids science & engineering. |
| Title |
Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Smart and Sustainable Energy, Chair Professor of Energy Conversion and Storage
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| Area of Specialization | Advanced electrode materials for energy storage; electrochemical technologies for energy and environmental applications; drying of high value products. |
| Title | Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| Area of Specialization | Noise and vibration control; Fluid-structure interaction; Damage detection and smart material/structure/products |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Sound induced vibration; Duct noise control; Building and room acoustics; Environmental noise measurement and control; Aeroacoustics; Sound Sources identification; Sound quality of product and its assessment; Soundscape study, planning and design |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Robotic manipulation; Vision-based control and automation; Micro-system design and Tissue engineering |
| Title | Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Product design and development; Numerical modelling and simulation; Manufacturing and metal forming; Size effect based micro-mechanics; Damage and fracture in manufacturing and product service. |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Advanced structural materials; High-strength steels & alloys; High-temperature superalloys; Nanostructured metals & alloys; Innovative material processing |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Frequency domain methods for nonlinear systems (the nCOS function or OFRF based methods); Nonlinear vibration & control (with a bio-inspired approach); Robotics—Analysis, Design & Control (Marine robotics, Construction robots and other bio-inspired robots); Robust learning/control methods; Nonlinear system identification and signal processing; Intelligent computing and optimization |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Computational aeroacoustics and gas dynamics; Wind turbine aerodynamics; Flow-induced sound and structural vibration; Aviation science; HVAC compressor and system design; Product sound and vibration quality |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Energy Meteorology, Solar energy resourcing and forecasting, Remote sensing, Radiative heat transfer, Mass transfer, Renewable power systems, Large scale energy storage, Passive cooling, Desalination |
| Title | Research Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Conformal polymer coating, polymer chemical vapor deposition, conducting polymers, energy-storage materials, lithium-ion batteries |
| Title | Research Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Physical acoustics, Acoustic metamaterials, Non-Hermitian acoustics |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Biomechanics; CFD; Flow-induced vibration and thermal management |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Robotics |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Solid Mechanics; Plasticity; Constitutive modeling; Amorphous Materials; Nanomaterials; Impact; Collision and Crashworthiness |
| Title | Head and Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| Area of Specialization | Metallic materials; Nuclear materials; Nanotechnology; Environmental degradation of materials; Computational materials design and modeling |
| Title | Associate Head and Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Structural Health Monitoring (SHM); Ultrasonics; Wave Propagation; Sensor and Sensor Network; Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE); Smart Materials and Structures; Advanced Composite Materials |
| Title | Research Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Autonomous Driving, Deep Learning |
| Title | Associate Head and Associate Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Aerodynamics; Hydrodynamics; Active flow control; Fluid-structure Interaction; Multiphase flow |
| Title | Professor and Interim Head of AAE, jointly appointed by Interdisciplinary Division of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE), and Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Area of Specialization | Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics; Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition; Flow Instabilities (Richtmyer–Meshkov Instability, Labyrinthine Instability in Magnetic Fluids); Supersonic Two-Phase Flow (Shock/Droplet Interaction); Detonation; Active flow control; Urban Flow/Pollution Simulation); UAV/MA |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Laser diagnostics; Structural dynamics; Signal processing |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Solid Mechanics (specialized in Fracture Mechanics and Contact Mechanics); Bio-inspired Mechanics and Materials; Advanced Energy Materials; Nanomechanics |
| Title | Research Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Nanocarbon based materials; Interface design of composite materials; Electrochemical energy storage |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Theoretical and numerical combustion; Chemical kinetics; Droplet and spray dynamics; Rarefied gas dynamics |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Biofuel chemistry, Supercritical combustion, Fuel-lean combustion, Advanced power/propulsion systems, Non-equilibrium reactive flow, Advanced battery material synthesis and fire safety, Plasma-assisted synthesis |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Computational materials science; Mechanical properties of nanomaterials; Applications of nanomaterials in energy conversion and storage |
| Title | Associate Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Structured acoustic materials and metamaterials; Acoustic imaging technology and system; Piezoelectric material and acoustic transducers; Experimental acoustics |
Teaching Staff
| Title | Senior Teaching Fellow |
| Area of Specialization | Composite and application; Composite manufacturing; Nanocomposite (carbon nanotube/polymer) structure |
| Title | Senior Instructor |
| Area of Specialization | Computer aided design; Computer aided engineering; Product design and management; Basic scientific computing; Supply chain management |
Teaching Staff
(from Interdisciplinary Division of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering)
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization | GNSS (GPS, Beidou, GLONASS, Galileo and QZSS) Positioning, Navigation and Guidance, Sensors Integration, Autonomous Driving, UAV, Indoor Positioning, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Signal Processing, 3D Mapping and Modern Avionics |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization |
GNSS for Civil Aviation: Integrity Monitoring and Augmentation Systems including ABAS, GBAS and SBAS
Land Navigation: Precise Positioning, Multi-Sensor Fusion
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| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Area of Specialization | Non-Destructive Evaluation, Structural Health Monitoring, Transducer Technology, Electrochemistry, Ultrasound, Computational Modelling |