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About the Senate

The Senate is the supreme academic body of the University. It is responsible for setting and reviewing academic policies. Chaired by the President, other members of the Senate include the Provost, Vice-Presidents, Deans, heads of academic departments and units, academic staff elected by their peers or co-opted by the Senate, and student representatives. Its powers and duties are detailed in University Statute 2. The Senate has delegated some of its powers and duties to the many committees that it has set up and the Boards of Schools.

Senate Membership

The President:

  • Professor Wei SHYY     史維教授

The Provost:

  • Professor Lionel M. NI 倪明選教授

The Vice-Presidents:

  • Mr Mark HODGSON      賀致信先生, Administration & Business
  • Professor Nancy Y. IP    葉玉如教授, Research & Development
  • Professor Yang WANG   汪揚教授, Institutional Advancement

The Deans:

  • Professor Tim K.T. CHENG   鄭光廷教授, Dean of Engineering
  • Professor Kar-Yan TAM        譚嘉因教授, Dean of Business & Management
  • Professor Kellee TSAI           蔡欣怡教授, Dean of Humanities & Social Science
  • Professor Andrew COHEN    高漢安教授, Dean of Science, Acting
  • Professor Charles W. W. NG 吳宏偉教授, Dean of HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School
  • Professor King-Lau CHOW    周敬流教授, Dean of Students, Acting

Heads of Academic Departments or Divisions in the Schools of Science, Engineering, and Business and Management:

        School of Science

  • Professor Ian WILLIAMS    韋慈恩教授, Chemistry
  • Professor Ting XIE              解亭教授, Life Science
  • Professor Xiaoping WANG 王筱平, Mathematics
  • Professor Peiyuan QIAN    錢培元教授, Ocean Science
  • Professor Penger TONG    童彭爾教授, Physics

        School of Engineering

  • Professor I-Ming HSING   邢怡銘教授, Chemical & Biological Engineering
  • Professor Hong-Kam LO   羅康錦教授, Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • Professor Dit-Yan YEUNG 楊瓞仁教授, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Professor Bertram SHI     施毅明教授, Electronic & Computer Engineering
  • Professor Guillermo GALLEGO, Industrial Engineering & Decision Analytics
  • Professor Chi-Ying TSUI   崔志英教授, Integrative Systems and Design
  • Professor Huihe QIU        邱惠和教授, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

        School of Business and Management

  • Professor Mingyi HUNG    洪明儀教授, Accounting
  • Professor Albert PARK       朴之水教授, Economics
  • Professor Chu ZHANG       張處教授, Finance
  • Professor Shaohui ZHENG 鄭少輝教授, Information Systems, Business Statistics & Operations Management
  • Professor Yaping GONG    龔亞平教授, Management
  • Professor Jiewen HONG    洪潔雯教授, Marketing, Acting

Heads of Academic Divisions in the School of Humanities and Social Science:

  • Professor Christian DANIELS, Humanities 
  • Professor Wenfang TANG 唐文方教授, Social Science

Heads of Academic Divisions in the Interdisciplinary Programs Office:

  • Professor Huamin Qu       屈華民教授, Director of Interdisciplinary Programs Office
  • Professor Alexis LAU         劉啟漢教授, Environment and Sustainability
  • Professor Xun WU             吳遜教授, Public Policy

Academic Registrar:

  • Mr James PRINCE             潘廉士先生

Director of Library:

  • Ms Diana L. H. CHAN        陳麗霞女士

Four other academic staff members from each School (other than the School of Humanities and Social Science and the Fok Ying Tung Graduate School) elected by the Schools:

        School of Science

  • Professor Jeffrey R CHASNOV 齊士樂教授
  • Professor Jensen LI                 李贊恒教授
  • Professor Eric MARBERG
  • Prof Jiguang WANG                 王吉光教授

        School of Engineering

  • Professor Zhigang LI               李志剛教授
  • Professor Li QIU                      丘立教授
  • Professor Minhua SHAO         邵敏華教授
  • Professor Jiang XU                  須江教授

       School of Business and Management

  • Professor Tai-Yuan CHEN       陳泰元教授
  • Professor Jiatao LI                 李家濤教授
  • Professor Kai-Lung HUI         許佳龍教授
  • Professor Allen HUANG         黄昊教授

One academic staff member from the School of Humanities and Social Science elected by the School:

  • Professor Siu-Woo CHEUNG 張兆和教授

Three academic staff members elected by full-time academic staff:

  • Professor Utpal BHATTACHARYA
  • Professor Lancelot F. JAMES 在林壽教授
  • Professor Jianwei SUN           孫建偉教授

Co-opted full-time academic staff members:

  • Professor Khaled BEN LETAIEF  李德富教授
  • Professor Che-Ting CHAN           陳子亭教授
  • Professor Andrew COHEN          高漢安教授
  • Professor Bradley A. FOREMAN 霍文彬教授
  • Professor Jimmy FUNG               馮志雄教授
  • Professor Andrew HORNER        康立德教授
  • Professor Guochen JIA               賈國成教授
  • Professor Arthur LAU                 劉培生教授
  • Professor Ricky S. W. LEE           李世瑋教授
  • Professor Anirban MUKHOPADHYAY
  • Professor Emily NASON              劉夢琳教授 
  • Professor Fugee TSUNG             宗福季教授
  • Professor Weijia WEN                溫維佳教授
  • Professor Enboa WU                  吳恩柏教授
  • Professor Danyang XIE               謝丹陽教授
  • Professor George Jie YUAN       袁杰教授

President of Students' Union:

  • Mr Ka Chun MAK                        麥嘉俊先生

One undergraduate student elected by undergraduate students:

  • Mr Ka Fu YUEN                           袁嘉賦先生

One postgraduate student elected by postgraduate students:

  • Mr Sebastian Yat Fung KO         高一鋒先生

Secretary:

  • Miss Terrenz WONG                  黃演行小姐

(Information as of 4 January 2021)