Prof Dahua Shou
Associate Director of the PolyU-Xingguo Technology and Innovation Research Institute, Associate Director of the Research Centre of Textiles for Future Fashion, Limin Endowed Young Scholar in Advanced Textiles Technologies (利民先進紡織科技青年學者席), Associate Professor
Prof. Dahua Shou is the Associate Director of the PolyU-Xingguo Technology and Innovation Research Institute, Associate Director of the Research Centre of Textiles for Future Fashion, Limin Endowed Young Scholar in Advanced Textiles Technologies (利民先進紡織科技青年學者席), and an Associate Professor at the School of Fashion and Textiles (SFT). He is also the founding Program Leader of Asia's and China’s first postgraduate program in Intelligent Wearable Technology (亞洲及中國首個“可穿戴科技”研究生學位).
Prof. Shou has received The Fiber Society’s 2023 Distinguished Achievement Award, an annual honor given to an individual researcher worldwide. He ranks among the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide in 2022 - 2024. Prof. Shou has also received the Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury (2025) and a Gold Medal (2024) at the Geneva Invention Exhibition in Switzerland, as well as the TechConnect Global Innovation Award twice in the United States. In addition, he has been honored with the PolyU Graduate School Outstanding Research Postgraduate Young Alumni Award (2024).
Prof. serves as an Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member for eight SCI journals (Q1/Q2), including Textile Research Journal and Journal of Industrial Textiles. Additionally, he is the Deputy Director of the Expert Committee at the National Textile and Apparel Comfort Technology R&D Center, China Textile Engineering Society. Prof. Shou is the chair of The Fiber Society Spring 2025 Conference in Hong Kong, themed “Future Fibers for Wellbeing, Intelligence, and Sustainability”.
Prof. Shou will chair The Fiber Society Spring 2025 Conference in Hong Kong, themed “Future Fibers for Wellbeing, Intelligence, and Sustainability”.