Three CityUHK scholars elected Fellows of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering
Professor Freddy Boey, President and University Distinguished Professor of City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK), Professor Michael Tse Chi-kong, Associate Vice-President (Innovation), and Professor Richard Yuen Kwok-kit, Chair Professor of the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, have been elected Fellows of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE) this year in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the field of engineering.
Since assuming the role of CityUHK President in May 2023, President Boey has been dedicated to leading the University towards internationalisation, through the strategic development framework “Innovating into the Future”. Under his leadership, CityUHK has been named the “Most International University in the World” by Times Higher Education for two consecutive years in 2024 and 2025.
President Boey holds numerous original patents and has outstanding achievements in medical applications of high-performance biomaterials.
His research has had a profound global impact, earning him numerous international accolades, including the President’s Science and Technology Award, Singapore’s highest Scientific Award, in 2013, and the prestigious Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine Fellow award, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Biomedicine. In 2014, he received Singapore’s President’s Technology Award for successfully developing nanostructure technology for drug delivery systems. In 2016, he was awarded the Singapore National Day Public Administration Gold Medal.
Additionally, President Boey has been conferred the title of Senior Research Associate of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, and has received Honorary Doctorates from Loughborough University in the United Kingdom and Tianjin University in China. He has also been conferred Honorary Professorships from the University of Indonesia, Nanjing Postal and Telecom University, and Nanjing Technological University.
The HKAE commended President Boey for pioneering biomaterials and nanotechnology in medicine, including biodegradable stents and surgical retractors, which have been successfully commercialised.
Professor Tse joined CityUHK in 2021 and currently serves as Associate Vice-President (Innovation), Director of the CityUHK Academy of Innovation, and Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Professor Tse’s research areas include power electronics, smart grids, nonlinear circuits and systems, and complex network applications. He has been awarded or appointed as an Honorary Professor and Fellow by several universities, including the University of Calgary, Melbourne University and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. In 2022, he was awarded the IEEE CASS Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award, becoming the first academic in Hong Kong, China, to receive this award.
The HKAE praised Professor Tse for his pioneering contributions to power electronics, including ultra-fast transient voltage regulation, sliding-mode control for converters, robust EV charging and wireless power transfer.
Professor Yuen joined CityUHK in 1988. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He currently serves as a Member of Committee on Self-financing Post-secondary Education by Education Bureau, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China, and the Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications. His research expertise includes fire safety and engineering, pyrolysis and combustion, applications of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), flame-retardant materials, neural network modelling applications in fire engineering, building energy conservation and HVAC systems. He was awarded the CityUHK President’s Award in 2016.
The HKAE commended Professor Yuen for pioneering CFD and machine learning models in fire engineering, advancing fire safety, flame retardant materials and human evacuation, which have had profound impacts on engineering practices.
Established in 1994, the HKAE aims to promote collaboration and innovation to advance engineering development in Hong Kong. It comprises a distinguished group of Fellows from various engineering disciplines, recognised as leaders in their profession, with remarkable achievements in engineering sciences and applications.