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Faculty and Staff

Program Director

K. Y. Michael WONG
Professor
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Relevant research interest

Complex systems, statistical physics, neural computation, multi-agent systems, optimization, optimal control in telecommunication networks, transportation networks and power grids

Associate Director

Ding PAN
Associate Professor
PhD, Institute of Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences

Relevant research interest

High performance computing applications, first-principles computational modeling and data driven analysis

Faculty

Shi Qing LING
Professor
PhD, The University of Hong Kong

Relevant research interest

Large sample theory, empirical processes, nonstationary time series, nonlinear time series, long memory time series, econometrics

Junwei LIU
Assistant Professor
PhD, Tsinghua University

Relevant research interest

Development of new Monte Carlo methods, natural integration of machine learning techniques in conventional Monte Carlo methods, advanced machine learning techniques like deep neural networks or convolutional neural networks to solve problems which are impossible in conventional methods

Tiezheng QIAN
Professor
PhD, Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences

Relevant research interest

Modeling, continuum and stochastic simulations of soft matter, study of rare events based on statistical physics

Yi WANG
Associate Professor
PhD, Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences

Relevant research interest

Parameter extraction from data observations, creation of package for symbolic computations, teaching of Mathematica Programming short courses

Dong XIA
Assistant Professor
PhD, The Georgia Institute of Technology

Relevant research interest

High-dimensional statistics, statistical machine learning, optimization and random matrices

Yang XIANG
Professor
PhD, New York University

Relevant research interest

Modeling and simulations in materials science, Data science and image science, Machine learning, Partial differential equations, Numerical analysis

Rui ZHANG
Assistant Professor
PhD, The City University of New York

Relevant research interest

Soft condensed matter physics. complex fluids, liquid crystals (LCs), microfluidics and nanofluidics and computational fluid dynamics

Tian Wen CHEN
Associate Professor of Science Education
PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Relevant research interest

Optimization

Teaching Staff

Erwin HUANG
Adjunct Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design
Deputy Chairman & Non-executive Director, Tse Sui Luen Jewellery (International)
Founder / Serial Entrepreneur for more than 20 companies

Relevant research interest

Entrepreneurship education

Sai Ping LI
Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics
Ph.D, University of Washington, Seattle

Relevant research interest

Complex systems (including topics in econophysics, sociophysics and biophysics

Shuohui LI
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Ph.D, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Relevant research interest

Computational physics, machine learning, high performance computing, condensed matter physics

Administrative Staff

Miss Florence CHENG
Assistant Manager (Administration)
Department of Physics, HKUST
Dr. Ivan YIP
Instructional Assistant
Department of Physics, HKUST
Mr. Tony SHING
Instructional Assistant
Department of Physics, HKUST