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Professor Fiona NAH Fui-hoon
Department of Media and Communication
Professor
3442 8868
fiona.nah@cityu.edu.hk
Human-computer interaction
Professor Fiona Nah is the Editor-in-chief of AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction. She holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She received her MSc and BSc (Honours) in Computer and Information Sciences from the School of Computing, National University of Singapore.
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Dr Ye SUN
Department of Media and Communication
Associate Professor
3442 7655
yesun27@cityu.edu.hk
Media and Society
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Dr Vincent WANG Xiaohui
Department of Media and Communication
Assistant Professor
3442 4725
xiaohui.wang@cityu.edu.hk
Computational Social Science; Social Media; Consumer Health Informatics; Human-Computer Interaction
Dr Wang holds a PhD in information studies from Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. His research converges at the intersection of information, communication, and new technologies.
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Dr ZHU Jin
Department of Public Policy
Assistant Professor
3442 8434
jin.zhu@cityu.edu.hk
Housing policy; Urban and rural governance; The politics of spatial planning; Sustainable cities; Homelessness
Dr ZHU Jin works in the fields of urban planning, housing, urban and rural governance and sustainable cities. His research aims to impact local policy-making and planning practices. Some of his publications are collaborations between academics and planning practitioners, which has benefited from his previous industry experience as a town planner in Shanghai before doing his PhD in Australia.
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Dr CHAN Siu-ming
Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Assistant Professor
3442 7994
siuming.chan@cityu.edu.hk
Poverty and Inequality; Housing; Social work; Social welfare and social policy; Social determinants of health
Dr CHAN Siu-ming worked as a frontline social worker in community settings for eight years before embarking on his academic journey. His vision is to enhance the well-being of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups. He aims to explore new initiatives and extend intervention strategies by analyzing social problems and human behavior by means of evidence-based and theory-informed academic research.
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Dr Esterina NERVINO
Department of English
Assistant Professor
3442 8732
e.nervino@cityu.edu.hk
Social Semiotics; Multimodal Discourse Analysis; Corpus Linguistics; ESP
Dr Nervino is currently Assistant Professor at CityU holding a joint appointment at the Department of English and the Department of Marketing. Topics which she has been working on cover: luxury and digital transformation, luxury and its intersection with art and space, country of origin effect and language use, sustainability, reputation management, branding and retail experience.
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Dr Jerrine TAN Ee-Wen
Department of English
Assistant Professor
3442 9758
j.tan@cityu.edu.hk
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Dr WANG Xijing
Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Assistant Professor
3442 8262
xijiwang@cityu.edu.hk
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Dr Tracy LU Shiyu
Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Assistant Professor
3442 8839
sy.lu@cityu.edu.hk
Environmental gerontology; Healthy Ageing; Social Capital; Mental Health; Social Impact Assessment
Dr Lu's research focuses on social determinants of healthy ageing, with a special emphasis on how environmental (e.g. neighbourhood physical and social environment) and social-behavioural factors (e.g. civic participation and volunteering) shape well-being, physical and mental health in later life.
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Professor Alfred HO Tat-kei
Department of Public Policy
Professor / Head
3442 8902
ho.tkalfred@cityu.edu.hk
Public budgeting; Performance management and governance; Local government; Comparative budget reform, citizen participation, e-government.
Professor Alfred HO is a leading scholar in public administration, especially in the subfields of performance management and budgeting, e-government, and citizen engagement.
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Dr Ge LAN
Department of English
Assistant Professor
3442 8554
gelan4@cityu.edu.hk
Corpus linguistics; Grammar/syntax; English for academic purposes; Second language writing; and Natural language processing
Dr Ge LAN holds a PhD in second language studies from Purdue University. He is a member of Corpus and Repository of Writing (Crow), an inter-institutional research project in the United States.
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Dr Edmund W CHENG
Department of Public Policy
Associate Professor
3442 9401
ew.cheng@cityu.edu.hk
Contentious politics and political sociology; Hong Kong politics and global China; Public opinion survey and mixed methods
Dr Edmund CHENG Wai’s research interests include contentious politics, political sociology, public opinion survey, Hong Kong politics and Global China.
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Dr CUI Wendong
Department of Chinese and History
Assistant Professor
3442 8796
wendocui@cityu.edu.hk
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; Hong Kong Literature and Culture; Sinophone literature; Comparative and World Literature
Dr CUI Wendong’s research focuses on modern Chinese literature and places a strong emphasis on transcultural translation.
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Dr HU Wanyang
Department of Public Policy
Assistant Professor
3442 7472
wanyang.hu@cityu.edu.hk
Urban and regional development; Housing policy; Migration; Quantitative method
Dr HU Wanyang’s research focuses on urban and regional development, particularly the intersection between urban policy, labor mobility, and economic development. She also works on housing market analysis and housing policy.
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Professor Christine HUANG Yihui
Department of Media and Communication
Chair Professor of Communication and Media
3442 8736
yihhuang@cityu.edu.hk
Cross-cultural communication and relationship; Chinese communication and relationship management; Public relations management, effectiveness, and value; Crisis management and crisis communication; Conflict resolution and negotiation
Professor Christine HUANG Yihui’s research interests include public relationship management, crisis communication, conflict negotiation, and cross-cultural communications and relationship.
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Dr Claudia KIM Junghyun
Department of Asian and International Studies
Assistant Professor
3442 7040
c.kim@cityu.edu.hk
Military bases; Social movements; Alliance politics; Korea and Japan
Dr Claudia KIM’s research focuses on military bases and social movements. For 2019-20, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Program on US-Japan Relations.
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Professor LIN Shaoyang
Department of Chinese and History
Professor
3442 2991
shaoylin@cityu.edu.hk
The intellectual, literary and political histories in the East Asian Sinitic sphere (China and Japan) from the early modern period onward; In particular, the late Qing Chinese intellectual history from both a global and, more specifically, an East Asian perspective; The history of historiography in modern China and Japan; Sino-Japanese exchanges; Comparative literature, and Critical Theory
Professor LIN Shaoyang’s research stretches over modern Japan studies and modern China studies with interdisciplinary approaches.
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Dr LIU Dongshu
Department of Public Policy
Assistant Professor
3442 9557
dongshu.liu@cityu.edu.hk
Political Institution and Political Economy of Authoritarian Regime; Public Opinion and Political Behavior in Autocracies; Chinese Politics and Public Policies
Dr LIU Dongshu’s research interests include Chinese politics, political economy and institutions in authoritarian regimes, and survey experiment on public opinion and political behavior.
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Dr MAI Ziyin
Department of Linguistics and Translation
Assistant Professor
3442 6426
ziyinmai@cityu.edu.hk
Childhood bilingualism; Heritage language acquisition; Second language acquisition; Language processing
Dr MAI Ziyin’s specialises in childhood bilingualism and second language acquisition.
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Dr Nick OR Hin-kin
Department of Public Policy
Assistant Professor
3442 6949
nick.or@cityu.edu.hk
Policy agendas and processes; Authoritarian regimes; Globalisation; Information processing; Hong Kong Politics
Dr OR Hin-kin’s research interests lie in the field of public policy, comparative politics and authoritarian regimes by drawing insights from behavioural and complexity sciences, using quantitative techniques and experimental methods. He is also interested in studying how individuals and organisations process policy-related information and Hong Kong Politics.
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Dr Nicolai PETROVSKY
Department of Public Policy
Associate Professor
3442 6590
npetrovs@cityu.edu.hk
Public service performance; Turnover of senior managers and civil servants; Citizen interactions with public services; Research transparency
Dr Nicolai PETROVSKY’s research focuses on public service performance and the role senior officials play in it, citizen-state interactions, and transparent and replicable research.
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Dr TSE Chun-yu
Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Assistant Professor
3442 4533
chunyu.tse@cityu.edu.hk
Cognitive neuroscience: brain dynamics in change detection and prediction violation; Brain imaging and stimulation methods: multimodal imaging methods, optical brain imaging, magnetic and electric brain stimulation, and functional connectivity
Dr TSE Chun-yu major research interest is in studies related to Cognitive neuroscience: brain dynamics in auditory and language processes. Brain imaging methods: multimodal imaging methods, optical brain imaging, and functional connectivity.
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