Academic Unit

Department of Chemistry

Prof. Jiarui Yang is currently a research assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry of CityUHK through the GRAP Scheme. He obtained his B.E. from the College of MSE of Beihang University and PhD from the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University. His research interest and expertise focus on designing and constructing efficient electrochemical systems with organocatalysts, single-atom/cluster/nanoparticle catalysts, aiming to comprehend the structure-activity relationship for the electrocatalytic process. His research ranges from theoretical design to industrial application, wishing to contribute to a revolution in chemical production. He has authored >35 peer-reviewed publications in Nature, Nat. Catal., Sci. Adv., Nat. Commun., Chem, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Edit., Adv. Mater., Nano Lett., etc. He was also selected into the World's Top 2% of scientists and his researches were selected as “China's major scientific, technological and engineering breakthrough” in 2023. He also hosted the funding supported by NSFC and was awarded as 2023 NRE Young Star Research Award, 2024 Carbon Future Young Investigator Award and so on.

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School of Energy and Environment

Dr. LIN Kaixin received his BEng degree from College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering at Hunan University, followed by an MSc degree in Intelligent Building Technology and Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a PhD degree from School of Energy and Environment at City University of Hong Kong. Dr. LIN’s research focuses on the development and application of advanced and sustainable thermal management strategies to address the growing concern on energy consumption. More specific research interests include passive thermal regulation, bio-inspired structure design, and radiative heat transfer. Dr. LIN has authored over 20 peer-reviewed research publications (5 as the first author) featured in prestigious journals, with one of his works featured in Science. His research on scalable and multifunctional radiative cooling materials impose significance to bridge the gap between fundamental research and industry. Based on the research outcomes, he has filed over 5 international and/or local patents.

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Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Prof. Mingzhan Wang is current a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of MSE of CityUHK through the GRAP Scheme. He obtained his B.E. from the College of Chemistry of Jilin University and PhD from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Peking University. Afterwards he continued his research in the School of Molecular Engineering of the University of Chicago first as a postdoctoral scholar and then as a staff scientist before joining CityUHK. His research interest and expertise focus on building a sustainable water-energy-materials nexus, covering the controlled synthesis of 2D materials, energy conversion and storage, angstrom-scale nanofluidics, ion transport, desalination, membrane science and separation. He has authored >30 peer-reviewed publications in Science, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., Advanced Materials, Matter, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Journal of the American Chemical Society etc, with a total citation of >2600.

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Department of Data Science

Prof. Xingyu Guo is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Science at CityUHK, through the GRAP Scheme. She earned a B.Sc. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China, in 2015, and a Ph.D. in 2022 from the University of California, San Diego. Following her Ph.D., she continued her research in the School of Physics at Fudan University as a postdoctoral scholar, before joining CityUHK. Her research interests and expertise are focused on designing new materials for energy storage and conversion using quantum mechanical simulations and artificial intelligence. She has developed novel models and methods that are widely used by the community to advance the development of next-generation battery materials.

Academic Unit

Department of Data Science

Prof. Xinke Li currently serves as a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Data Science at CityUHK through the GRAP scheme. He obtained his B.Sc. from the College of Electronic Science and Engineering at Jilin University, followed by an M.Sc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore, and a Ph.D. in Industrial System Engineering. His research spans 3D computer vision, deep geometry learning, and trustworthy AI, with over 10 research publications featured in prestigious AI conferences and journals, including ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, AAAI, and NeurIPS. Several of his works have been nominated for oral presentations. Prof. Li has been involved in several research projects, such as the AI Singapore, and is currently engaged in a long-term biomedicine AI project focusing on metabolomic mass spectrometry analysis.

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Department of Electrical Engineering

Prof. Yuechuan Tao is current a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of CityUHK through the GRAP Scheme. He received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China, in 2017, an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2019, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Sydney, Australia. He was the Wallenberg-NTU Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Nanyang Technological University before joining CityUHK. His research interest and expertise focus on power system operation and planning, electric vehicles, smart grid data-analytics , etc. Prof. Tao was the key researcher actively involved in a number of government and industry-funded projects, mainly in charge of data-driven power system planning, battery energy storage system modeling, and energy management strategies in smart grids.

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School of Creative Media

Prof. Yumeng Hou is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media of CityUHK through the GRAP Scheme. She obtained her B.Eng degree in Digital Media Technology from Zhejiang University, China, an M.Sc. in Computer Science and a Ph.D. from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Prof. Hou’s research focuses on the intersection of computation, digital curation, and cultural archives, with an emphasis on integrating curatorial thinking with data science methods to preserve, transmit, and reinterpret traditional practices and performance arts. Her research has been published in leading journals in the fields of digital humanities, heritage studies, and computational archival science. She is also a regular speaker at international conferences and a contributor to scholarly books.

Academic Unit

Department of Chemistry

Prof. Zhenyu Shi is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry of City University of Hong Kong through the GRAP Scheme. He obtained his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Zhejiang University (China) and completed his Ph.D. at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Afterward, he continued his postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemistry of CityUHK. His research interests focus on the controlled design and synthesis of 2D hybrid nanomaterials for catalysis, electronics, energy conversion and storage. He has published 19 papers in highly-esteemed journals such as Nature, Nat. Mater., Chem. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., Acc. Chem. Res., Chem, Natl. Sci. Rev. etc.