- THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong AUTUMN 1994

HKUST HOSTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

In August, the University was pleased to host one of the largest academic conferences ever convened in Hong Kong when 550 delegates from more than 40 countries met at the Clear Water Bay campus to conduct the XIVth International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy.

Named after the Indian physicist who discovered the "scat­tering of light" on which it is based, Raman spectroscopy is a technique of characterising molecules that has become, with the advent of lasers, an essential tool of modern molecular science.

Meeting in Asia for only the third time in its history, the biennial conference celebrated its 25th anniversary in Hong Kong. From the opening ceremony on August 22nd to the close

of the conference on the 26th, ICORS '94 proved to be a memorable forum for the exploration of new ideas and discov­eries in fields ranging from biology and medicine to semicon­ductors to industrial process and the environment.

Following a keynote address by the 1981 Nobel laureate in physics, Prof. N. Bloembergen of Harvard University, del­egates were treated to a rich blend of scientific sessions to­gether with a full programme of social and cultural events.

The conference banquet, in particular, delighted partici­pants with a taste of fine Chinese cuisine in a traditional grand style. The banquet's high-spirited and festive air will long be remembered as a fitting climax to an exhilarating and historic conference. 0

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PROGRESS REPORT FROM THE VICE· CHANCELLOR AND PRESIDENT

By the end of 1992, the University had a fully functioning campus in the sense that all basic academic and operational space needs could be met. As many as 7,000 students could enroll, and facilities were available for a faculty of 640 to discharge their teaching and research responsibili- . ties . Inevitably, people would ask me: "Now that Phase II is complete, when will Phase III begin?"

Going by "the book" - namely, the cost plan which Government uses to define the scope of construction - yes, Phase II is complete. But Phase III will not soon begin: Government plans to take several years to examine whether further expansion of Hong Kong's tertiary sector is necessary.

In a way, this is good news for us: the University can certainly use a period of consolidation. But it creates a problem. The original three-phase master plan, for sound logistical and finan­cial reasons, called for a number of primary facilities to be over­built in Phase II. In compensation, other facilities seen to be secondary - and therefore less urgently needed - were omitted from Phase II. The assumption, blessed by Government, was that

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all three phases would be built in rapid succession; therefore, little would be lost by providing for these facilities in Phase III.

Now that Phase III has been postponed indefinitely, it would be logical to restore those "omitted" facilities to Phase II. Only then would the campus be adequate to meet the University'S needs for physical education, cultural activities, industrial train­ing, campus amenities, applied R&D, technology transfer, and industrial incubation - hardly "secondary" in importance when one considers HKUST's mandate.

We have additional needs which have not been met because they transcend Government's public funding limit. The main item in this category is housing. For students, Government has not been willing to approve capital funds for additional residen­tial halls. So, less than 30% of our students can be accommo­dated on campus. Likewise, for faculty and staff, the number of flats meets only 1/3 of the University'S projected requirement.

There is no simple solution. We must approach these prob. lems from several directions, tackling one piece at a time. One line of approach aims at persuading Government to finance the "omitted" facilities and additional undergraduate residential halls with the $270 million savings realized by the Jockey Club in the construction of Phases I and II. Another approach is to seek the financial support of business and industry leaders who appreciate the importance of advanced technology to the future of Hong Kong and south China. A third approach focuses on construction which can be self-financed.

Let me outline here what we are about to accomplish with this third approach. Several new construction projects are underway (sketched below), all self-financed with bank loans to be repaid over time with income from rentals and donations. These projects costing a total of $710 million do not require new Government allocation. In two years, they will be complete. D

Staff HOI/sing: 66 units . Summer 1995

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Staff HOI/sing: 156 units SI/mmer 1996

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HKUST IN ACTION

Participants in the third Executive • Development Program for senior

government officials from Hainan Province celebrate its conclusion on 1 July 1994.

Conducted by the Hainan Institute, the programs treat participants to a

comprehensive review of the economic, legal, and political systems of Hong Kong.

Scholars from six countries in Asia attended an • international conference held at HKUST on 19-20

August to explore "The Emergence of East Asia: Some Bilateral and Multilateral Issues". Organized

by the Division of Social Science, the conference dealt with the new frameworks of cooperation emerging in .

the region upon the decay of Cold War alignments.

Opening in the Library Gallery on 2 September • was an exhibition of fine reproductions of paintings

and calligraphy from the National Palace Museum in Taipei, "Splendors of Brush and Ink".

• Public lectures by three Nobel laureates highlight the current series of Distinguished Lectures in Science sponsored by the School of Science. The first lecture in the series, "Today's Science, Tomorrow's Technology", was given on 8 August by Prof. J. Robert Schrieffer of Florida State University, who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1972· for his contributions to the theory of superconductivity.

• New students were officially welcomed to HKUST on 31 August as the 1994-95 academic year got under way. The Class of 1997 is the fourth class of undergraduates to enter the University, and at 1,939 it is by far the largest yet. Total undergraduate enrollment now stands at 4,361.

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BUILDING A UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics

"A building block in the University" is how Prof. Din-Yu HSIEH refers to the Department of Mathematics.

As Department Head, Prof. Hsieh has guided the develop­ment of the Department since its founding, but even he admits that its name - Department of Mathematics - is a bit of a misnomer. "It should be called Department of Mathematical Sciences," he says, because one of its missions is to provide the grounding in math needed to sustain teaching and research in a scientific and technological institution.

In practice, this means that HKUST's Department of Math­ematics houses strong components of applied math and statistics in addition to the pure math that is the traditional province of university math departments. At other universities, applied math and statistics - if they are offered at all - are usually estab­lished as separate departments. This is the case, for example, at HKUST's two sister universities in Hong Kong.

The result of combining pure and applied math is that HKUST' s Department of Mathematics is fairly large as math departments go. With 40 faculty members and still growing, it is one of the largest departments in the University. Furthermore, in compari­son with its counterparts at other universities, it is unique in offering undergraduate options in mathematical sciences, scien­tific computation, and statistics, as well as a traditional concen­tration in pure math.

The Department maintains the heaviest teaching load in the University, a result of providing math training for students in all disciplines. Not only science and engineering undergraduates, but business and management students too realize they have a critical need for math literacy and skills, as is attested by the large number of business students enrolling in the Department's courses.

"Those who want to work in a bank or insurance company take math for its practical application," says Dr. Wei-Ping LI, a lecturer in algebraic geometry. "Math is generally considered to be a boring, difficult subject. But we try to make it more interesting to the students so that it comes alive to them."

Whether it is predicting movements of the stock market or movements of the earth in its orbit, mathematics today perme­ates almost every discipline. In this technological world, says Prof. Hsieh, solving problems in science, engineering, and man­agement lies at "the frontier of math development."

Pure and Applied Math Algebra, geometry, topology, and analysis - these are the

playing fields where pure mathematicians develop theorems, argue proofs, and come as close as anyone to laying bare the internal order of the world. It is an impossibly abstract world to many, but to those admitted to its precincts, the incomparable elegance of the mathematician's world, and of the laws that govern it, provides its own reason for being and its own rewards .

According to Prof. Chung-Chun YANG, a specialist in com-

plex analysis, research in pure math has little bearing on practi­cal problems because it develops from axioms, the first princi­ples or accepted rules of mathematics. "Math is a game of logic," he says. "There is a set of rules, and from the rules we develop the results."

Analysis studies the relationships that exist between two complete sets of numbers. In complex analysis, which involves the functions of complex (including real and imaginary) num­bers, Prof. Yang deals not with the numbers themselves but with the factorization of functions, that is, their decomposition into constituent prime functions.

Dr. Li, a pure mathematician who studies how geometrical properties and spatial relations remain unaffected even when an object undergoes continuous change in shape or size, says that the results obtained in pure math, as well as the techniques developed in the process, can sometimes be applied to practical matters . However, for pure mathematicians there's no guarantee that their results or techniques will ever be used by practical mathematicians. It's not surprising, then, that there has always been some question as to whether research in pure math is useful to society or not.

Nevertheless, the fact remains that present-day work in theo­retical science and engineering relies heavily on applied analy­sis, where numbers correspond to the actual properties of objects and their observed behavior. Mathematical scientists and engi­neers take the theorems that pure mathematicians like Prof. Yang derive and apply them to thefr own subject matter, making

. original contributions to science and engineering. "Pure math," says Dr. Kwing-Lam CHAN, a specialist in

computational physics, "is conceptions, theorems, and opera­tional techniques that mayor may not find practical applica­tion." Applied math is simply math that is being used. But beyond that, he adds, "It actually is very difficult to draw an absolute boundary between 'pure' and 'applied' math. It has become practically a continuous range."

Fluid Mechanics and Statistics One of the most productive areas of applied math is fluid

mechanics, which studies the motion of liquids and gases and has direct application to industry and environmental research. Understanding the fluid dynamics of typhoons or the motion of waves is the kind of task that falls to researchers in this field.

Dr. Jeffrey CHASNOV, for example, studies fluids in turbulent motion, and the insights he and other researchers like him obtain into the nature of turbulence may one day be applied to such disparate fields as aircraft design and global climate modeling.

Another area of math with wide application is statistics and probability, which deals with random phenomena. Randomness arises as an important factor in a number of fields - ranging from biology to economics - and the study of statistics and probability is a key element in disciplines such as econometrics, finance, the social sciences, the medical and biological sciences, and control engineering.

For researchers like Dr. Ngai Hang CHAN, making sense of random phenomena is an exacting calling. "Life is full of ran­domness," he says, "and it is the statistician's job to assess the

uncertainty in a scientific manner." The job involves more than simply tallying data - what

many people do with sports scores and player statistics. Dr. Chan's research deals with time series analysis, meaning the study of phenomena possessing a time correlation structure, such as events in the stock market or a person 's heart beat. Dr. Chan analyzes the temporal correlation structure to assess the uncertainty surrounding future events. That is, he seeks to model , analyze, and explain the variations of the data with advanced statistical theory so that educated guesses can be made not only about what is observed, but what is possible.

Scientific Computation Introduced to the math­

ematics curriculum by Prof. Grafton HUI, scien­tific computation uses present-day computers to solve large-scale business and scientific problems that were previously in­tractable analytically or impractical to solve on ear­

lier generations of com- • By rubbing his ancient

puters . Modeling airflow Chitlese bowl, Prof Oin-Yu

and drag in aircraft design is one example.

In the last 20 years, sci­entific computation has developed rapidly, becom­ing an independent ap­

H SIEH causes the water to form waves due to surface tension . His current work in fluid dynamics seeks to explain why the water splas/les so high.

proach to studying science and technology that effec­tively complements the long-established theoretical and experimental approaches . By now it has also become an integral part of most high-tech industries.

People trained in scientific computation are not concerned with computer hardware per se, but rather with the development of new and improved algorithms - problem­solving routines - that can efficiently utilize the ever-increas­ing amounts of computing power available today. Dr. Kwing­Lam Chan says that such intelligently expanded computing power is exactly what is needed. Many problems that cannot be solved analytically can be attacked by numerical techniques . Moreover, using computation to get insight into a problem may lead the researcher to form new ideas and theories.

For researchers at HKUST, then, the University's recent acquisition of a 140-node Intel Paragon computer - the most powerful parallel computer in the region - is good news indeed, for they now have a powerful tool to tackle problems that were out of reach before, and to develop new and improved compu­tational techniques.

According to Prof. Hui, the process starts with a real problem, whether it be aerodynamic design or weather forecasting or

-understanding the behavior of waves. The researcher must first understand the fundamental physics of the problem before con­structing a mathematical model to express it. Careful study of the mathematical properties of the model then leads to the design of an accurate and efficient computing algorithm. The results obtained by computation may then be ana lyzed to gain better understanding of the phenomena under study.

Skills in scientific computation can open doors to careers in a wide variety of fields, as today's students have been quick to observe. In Hong Kong, the Royal Observatory and Environ­mental Department have already expressed interest in the grow­ing number of students electing this new option. The financial sector will also need many people with skills in scientific com­putation.

While pure math provides the foundation of the mathematical sciences, it is applied mathematics that brings abstract knowl­edge into the concrete world, solving problems across a wide spectrum of disciplines. By maintaining strong components in both pure and applied math, the Department of Mathematics at HKUST is not only meeting its responsibilities within the Uni­versity, but also helping the University to fulfill its mission in Hong Kong and the region . 0

• A knol is a closed siring, tangled in three-dimensional space. Some knots can never be unlangled no mailer how the string is manipulated -provided if is not cut and re-tied. Why Ihis is so is one of the questions studied in topology.

• A fractal is a computer-generated, infinitely complex set of points that reveals unliinited detail as you focus 011 smaller and smaller areas. Fractals can be remarkably beautiful and are frequently used to mode/. the textures and pafferns found in natllre.

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DEVELOPMENT

HKUST FACULTY AWARDED $50.1 MILLION FOR RESEARCH

In its fourth year of providing competi­tive research grants, Hong Kong's Re­search Grants Council (RGC) has awarded $50.1 million to 106 projects submitted by HKUST faculty members .

This represents a huge 150% increase over the previous year in both the number of projects supported and total funding -measures by which HKUST now leads all other Hong Kong tertiary institutions even though the size of its faculty is much smaller than most.

Furthermore, there was an indication that this year's outcome could have been even more impressive than it was. The RGC, for the first time, revealed that a significant number of proposals received a high rating but were not supported due to a lack of funds. Twenty-seven such proposals were identified - more than the total number of successful proposals just two years ago - and recommended for consideration for University funding.

This year, unrestricted by an institutional quota for the first time, HKUST submitted 164 proposals, up from 61 the previous year. And, as in 1993, the RGC awarded funds to about two-thirds of the submissions, the highest success rate among .Hong Kong tertiary institutions. Next year, the number of proposals is expected to rise even further as the size ofHKUST's faculty continues to grow.

"The University did do well compared to other institutions," said Prof. Eugene Wong, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Development. "There are some signs that the grants are becoming more competitive, which is to be welcomed, not shunned. For a young institution such as this, there is a real need for discipline and challenge, and there is nothing like competition to create these qualities ."

Offering some perspective, Prof. Wong added, "The Hong Kong Government is very supportive of basic research. Aside from the RGC grants, it also provides direct allocation grants. All in all, the support level for research in Hong Kong seems to be getting better all the time.

"It represents a recognition by Gov-

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ernment that Hong Kong's future will depend heavily on science and technol­ogy and that investment in research will bring handsome social returns to the peo­ple of Hong Kong. To those of us at HKUST, this represents not only a special opportunity to develop a world-class re­search university, but also a special obli­gation to ensure that the research serve the social needs for which it is intended."

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RESEARCH GRANTS COUNCIL VISITS HKUST

On 14 June, members of the Research Grants Council came to the HKUST campus to see for themsel ves how research at Hong Kong's youngest university is progressing. During their visit, they heard presentations by more than 35 faculty

. members,and also met with students. The campus visit was part of a program

begun in 1992 in which RGC members visit two publicly funded institutions each year with the aim of gaining firsthand knowledge of the research environment at each institution.

Deemed successful, the program will continue with a second round of visits beginning next year.

ITDC FUNDS EIGHT HKUST PROJECTS

HKUST takes its mandate to support Hong Kong's technological growth seriously , and recent awards indicate the Industry and Technology Development Council (ITDC) thinks research here is on the right track.

This year Government launched a new program entitled Additional Funding for Industrial Support. Administered by the Industry Department for ITDC, the pro­

gram offers funding to local organizations and educational institutions for projects promising to advance local industry.

Some 200 applica­tions were submitted for the initial funding cycle. Of the 39 projects ap­proved, eight came from HKUST, which led all Hong Kong tertiary in­stitutions in the number of projects supported and total funds granted. In all, more than $40 million

was allocated to the eight HKUST projects. The largest of the projects in terms of

funding - $ 14.4 million over three years - wi ll establish a center for liquid crystal display research.

Environmental concerns figure prominently in half of the HKUST projects funded . A grant of $8.8 million will be used to investigate advanced technologies for waste treatment in Hong Kong industries. A "green label" certification program for Hong Kong and two projects deali ng with wastewater treatment also received support.

In the field of pharmaceuticals, two projects were approved, both from the Department of Biochemistry. One is concerned with the development of anti­bacterial peptides while the other will es­tablish a drug delivery technology center.

The eighth project will be widely ap­plicable to regional industrial develop­ment in general, for it aims to establish a database on techno logical and manu­facturing resources in Hong Kong and south China. 0

SUPERNET SOARS

HKUST's SuperNet is arguably the hottest new telecommuni­cations service in Hong Kong - if not in Asia. Subscribers are signing up at a rate of 250 to 300 per month, with more than a thousand subscribers and some 2,000 logins already registered. Among these new SuperNetters are multinational corporations, family-owned businesses, recent students keeping

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Wong came to HKUST to do a PhD but now the excitement and responsibilities of developing SuperNet are overtaking his degree work. Training sessions (offered free to subscribers and held once a month), customer support, building. the subscriber base, and upgrading system hardware are proving to be all­consuming tasks.

"It will take a few years before we are truly profitable," Wong predicts, but he believes success is assured. "We have chosen a

'small margin, large vol­in touch with schoolmates, and mothers communi­cating with children away from home. For a busi­ness just one year old in October, these figures are indeed encouraging.

The Hong Kong Internet ume' approach and have made the cost of joining cheaper than owning a pager. One subscriber, paying $175 per month, is allowed 2510gins (i.e., 25 individual e-mail ad­dresses). Since 90% of Hong Kong businesses have fewer than 25 em­ployees, this means the entire staff of most com­panies can be online for less than the cost of a pager."

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The Internet is the world's largest international data network, providing information on a myriad of topics to tens of millions of users who are gi ven the means to share this information - including any they generate for themselves - instantly and glo­bally . Classic networking tools such as electronic mail, bulletin boards, and file transfer have already been augmented by audio and video services, with

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finest digital phone networks in Asia. Second, commercial Internet service providers can be found at the moment in only two other Asian countries­Japan and Singapore. SuperNet is therefore look­ing afield. "We're talking to Pakistan now. They may find it cheaper and easier to join our service than to try to set up their own. On the Internet, physical location is no longer such an important factor."

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The 5l1perNet team - Wel1dy LiI1, Pil1dar WOl1g, Forres t Ng, Dave ClIrado, alld Michael Chal1 - celebrate tlleir sllccess ill

"We can be a catalyst to establishing an Internet industry in Hong Kong," Wong observes, and he sees it starting to happen already. "After using e­mail and other network services, students know how vahiable these resources are and don ' t want to has only two such com­

panies, the Internet in­toppillg the thollsal1d-slIbscriber mark.

dustry is expected to flourish over the next few years, and the telephone company has already added an entry in the yellow pages to accommodate this new sort of business.

SuperNet is the first large-scale commercial project of HKUST's RandD Corporation. It was established with funding from both the Corporation and the SSRC, which had been created with a donation from Sino Land Company, and now has five full-time staff, including Project Manager Pindar Wong, who has been involved in the project from the beginning.

lose them. Also, they know how to develop and apply these resources . Even before graduating, our students are · talking about setting up companies to use the resources of the Internet -through SuperNet - to do business."

Another sign that tele-networking is moving inexorably into the business community can be found on the growing number of business cards which feature an e-mail address - listed imme­diately after the portable phone number but before the fax. That this trend is taking hold in Hong Kong is surely super news for the SuperNet team. 0

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BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

In the annual Dragon Boat races held • in June at Sai Kung, the men's student team

from HKUST won the Tertiary Institution Cup for the third year in a row.

Students and faculty make music together in HKUST's Wind Ensemble. The concert band made its debut at the annual Donors' Reception in May and will give a number of free concerts and mini-concerts this year.

For the second time in the last three years, a team • of Computer Science undergraduates from HKUST

won the Scholastic Programming Contest sponsored by the Hong Kong Chapter of the Association of

Computer Manufacturers in early July. The team goes on to represent Hong Kong in an international

contest to be held in the United States next March.

o Camps to initiate new students to • university life were again the centerpiece of

the annual student orientation organized during the latter part of August by the

Student Affairs Office, the Students ' Union, and various student societies.

• The HKUST Athletics Team proudly participated in the 3rd National Track and Field Championships for University Students held on 21 August in Jinan, Shandong Province, China.

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OCTOBER 1994

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

HEAD AND PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

K. C.CHAN

(陳家強教授)

K. C. CHAN has been appointed Professor ofFinance and Head of the Department of Finance. “l' d like to continue the very successful faculty recruitment the Department has done so far," he says of his new appointm巳nt.“1 would also like the Department to build stronger links with the business comrnunity, and to become a center for financial research related to Hong Kong and other Asian markets."

Prior to joining the HKUST faculty as a Reader in Finance in 1993, he was Associate Professor of Finance and Director of the Finance PhD program at Ohio State University. Best known for his research on the pricing of risky assets and the performance of different stock market trading strategies , he is also interested in studying the efficiency offinancial markets , th巴 costs of trading and market making in different markets, and the correlation structure among stocks.

Professor Chan was bom in Hong Kong and received his BA in economics from Wesleyan University and both his MBA and PhD in finance from the University of Chicago . 口

PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Lung-Fei LEE

(李龍飛教授)

Professor Lung-Fei LEE comes to HKUST from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was Professor of Economics.

After receiving his BSc from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1971, he spent three ye訂s at the University ofWaterloo in Canada obtaining master' s degrees in pure mathematics and statis­tics. He then moved to Rochester University in New York, where he eamed his MA and PhD in economics.

Professor Lee is a specialist in econometrics and rnicroeconornics. H巴 is also interested in simulation estimation, serniparametric methods, and empirical economics. Author of more than 50 arti­cles , he is an elected fellow ofboth the Joumal ofEconometrics and the Econometric Society. From 1983 to 1989, he was associate editor of the Journal of Econometrics, and he has recently becQme associate editor of the Japanese Economics Review. He is also a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Ameri­can Statistical Association . 口

VISITING PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

Ravi JAGANNATHAN

(翟敬賢教授)

Taking time out from his duties at the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota, Pro f. Ravi JAGANNATHAN has been appointed Visiting Professor in the Department of Finance.

Professor Jagannathan received his PhD in financial economics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1983 , winning the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Econornic Theory at the same time. He thenjoined the faculty ofthe Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestem University and spent six years in its Financ巳 Department before moving to the University of Minne­sota, where he has been appointed the Pip巴r Jaffray Professor of Finance.

His research interests include the pricing offinancial assets, the futures and options markets, and portfolio performance evaluation. A former mentor in th巳 President's Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program, he was the 1994 winner of the award for Best Paper on Investments delivered at the Annual Conference of the Westem Finance Association. 口

VISITING PROFESSOR DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Robert W. BLANNING

(白恩寧教授)

Visiting in HKUST's newly renamed Department ofInforma­tion and Systems Management is Robert W. BLANNING, Profes­sor of Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management of Vanderbilt University.

Professor Blanning received his PhD in operations research from the Wharton School ofthe University ofPennsylvania, and he has taught at both Wharton and New York University.

In addition to publ的hing more than 50 joumal a叫cles and conference papers, Prof. Blanning has co-edited books on decision support systems and expert systems for management. He is a member of the Institute of Management Sciences , the Society for Information Manageme肘， and the Association for Computing Machinery. 口

ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF BIOCHEMISTRY

Fwu-Shan SHEU

(許福山博士)

1991 PhD Northwestern University (Cellular and Mo­lecular Neuroscience)

1991-94 Fogarty Fellow , N ational Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Research Interests: Biochemistry; molecular biology and electrophysiology of neural plasticity; signal transduction and information storage.

LECTURER IN CHEMISTRY

Zhenyang LIN

c林振陽博士)

1989 PhD Oxford University (Cluster Chemistry) 1990-93 Research Associate, Texas A & M University Research Interests : Theoretical inorganic chemistry and material

sClences.

ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

Lambros KATAFYGIOTIS

(賈智士博士)

1991 PhD California Institute of Technology (Structural Dynamics)

1991-94 Assistant Professor, University of Akron Research Interests: Structural dynamics; system identification;

damage detection; structural control

LECTURER IN CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

Hai YANG

(楊海博士)

1992 PhD Kyoto University (Transportation Engineer­ing)

1992-93 Postdoctoral Research Fellow , University of Waterloo

Research Interests : Analys時， modelling and optimization oftrans­portat lOn systems.

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LECTURER IN BIOLOGY

Alber t C.H. YU

(于常海博士)

1984 PhD University of Saskatchewan (Pharmacology) 1984-94 Senior Research Associate, Stanford Univer­

Slty Research Interests : CNS injury and regeneration under trauma and

ischemia; antisense gene therapy; neural cell transplantation .

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LECTURER IN PHYSICS

Yuqi WANG

( 王 玉琦博士)

Columbia University (Electrical Engineering) Postdoctora1 Fellow, Co1umbia University Quantum transport in semi-conductor nanostructures and devices; long wav巴lengthsemi-conductor lasers.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING

Zongjin LI

(李 宗 津博士)

Northwestern University (FractureofConcrete) Research Associate, NSF Centre for Advanced Cem巴nt Based Materials Fiber reinforced concrete; fracture and dura-bility of concrete; nondestructive evaluation; rebar corrosion ; interface of aggregate and fiber-cemen t.

ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Nevin Lianwen ZHANG

(張連文博士)

Beijing Normal University (Applied Probabil­ity Theory) University of British Columbia (Computer Science) Artificial intelligence; knowledge representa­tion; reasoning und巳r uncertainty; Bayesian networks; decision networks; data strucuture and algorithms.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Curtis LING

(凌志善博士)

1993 PhD University of Michigan (Electrical Engineer­ing)

Research Interests: High-frequency integrated antennas and cir­cuits; communication circuits; micromachining and molecular machines ; br巴aking th巴 three

hour marathon.

ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Bert SHI

(施毅明博士)

1994 PhD University of California, Berkeley (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

Research Interests: Neural networks; signal and image processing; pattern recognition; nonlinear circuit and sys­tem theory.

ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Weiping LI

; (李衛平博士)

1990 PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Con­trol Engineering)

1991-94 Assistant Professor, Wayne State University Research Interests: Mechatronics; industrial automation; nonlinear

control system; manufacturing information systems.

ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING

Tak-jun WONG

(黃德尊博士)

rm ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Cuong T. NGUYEN

(阮進強博士)

1993 PhD Stanford University (Serniconductor Device Physics and Technology)

Res巴arch Interests: SOI device technology; wireless IC technol­ogy; 3-D surface micromachining and applica­tions; chemo-mechanical polishing.

ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Chuan-Jun SU

(蘇傳軍博士)

1989 PhD Texas A & M University (Automated Manu­facturing System)

1989-94 Senior Lecturer, Texas A & M University Research Interests: CAD/CAM; solid modelling; computer aided

process planning; multimedia applications.

LECTURER IN ACCOUNTING

Kermit J. ROHRBACH

(饒凱民博士)

1983 PhD University of Illinois (Accountancy) 1991-94 Associate Professor, Mississippi State Univ叮叮

sJty Research Int巳rests: Statistical methods in financial research ; func­

tional programming methods (in J) .

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ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS

Songnian CHEN

(陳松年博士)

1990 PhD University of California, Los Angeles (Ac- 1994 PhD Princeton Univ巴rsity (Economics) counting) Research Interests: Semiparametric and nonparametric estimation

1990-94 Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Research Interests : Incentive issues related to accounting infor­

mation discIosure; capital markets; auditor quality and switches

OCTOBER 1994

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ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF FINANCE

David Phillip QUINN

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS

Yungsan KIM

(金永山博士)

Yale University (Finance) Trading strategies; international finance; struc­ture and viability of financial markets.

1994 PhD Research Interests:

University of California. Los Angeles (Eco­nomics) Industrial organization; the internal organiza­tion of the firm; corporate governance.

PhD

Research Interests:

1993

ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS MANAGEME NT & MARKETING

Lydia PRICE

(白詩莉博士)

ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS MANAGEME NT

Shaohui ZHENG

Columbia University (Business Administra­tion) Assistant Professor. INSEAD Consumer psychology. particularly belief for­mation and change; quantitative marketing re­search methods

PhD

1988-94 Research Interests:

1988

( 鄭 少輝博士)

Columbia University (Operations Research) Quality and production management; inven­tory control; Markov decision programming; queumg system.

1994 PhD Research Interests:

LECT URER IN MARKETING

Michael Kin g Man HUI

(許敬文博士)

ASSIST ANT PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT OF ORGANISA TIONS

Anne Louise L YTLE

London Business School (Marketing) Associate Professor of Marketing. Concordia University Services marketing; cross-cultural consumer behaviors; China trade and business.

1988 PhD 1989-94

Research Interests:

( 黎 安 露 博士)

Kellogg Graduate School ofManagement (Or­ganizational Behavior/lntercultural Negot悶，tion) Intercultural and comparative intracultural communication. negotiation. and dispute reso­lution.

PhD

Research Interests:

1994

LECTURER IN SO CIAL SCIENCE

James Kai-sing KUNG

( 龔 啟聖博士)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCE 《闕，

一Jae Ho CHUNG

(鄭在浩博士)

University of Cambridge (Economics) Lecturer. Hong Kong Polytechnic Economics of institutions and development with special reference to the Chinese economy.

1991 PhD 1992-94 Research Interests:

University of Michigan (Political Science) Central-provincial relations in China; Chinese foreign policy; policy implem巴ntation studies

1993 PhD Research Interests:

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