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Prof. YIP Ngai Ming
Yip started his academic career after working as a social worker for nearly ten years. Graduating from the University of York in the UK, he joined City University in 1994. His current research work is focused on housing policy, housing management and urban policy. He is the Programme Leader of the MA in Housing Studies and a member of the Programme Management Team, member of the Chartered Institute of Housing and Honarary Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Housing, and a registered social worker as well as a registered professional housing manager. He is a member of the Task Force on Tenancy Control of Subdivided Units set up by the Transport and Housing Bureau of the Hong Kong Government and member of the Commercial Properties Committee of the Hong Kong Housing Authority.

Research Interests
Urban sociology; urban spatial analysis; housing policy

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Prof. ZHANG Xiaoling
Xiaoling joined City University of Hong Kong in the winter of 2012. Prior academic roles have been at the University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Since 2005, She has been doing research on Housing and Urban studies and Environmental studies, particularly in micro-level management in real estate enterprises, competitiveness for real estate developers/home builders, their behavior/ actions in contributing to social responsibility/sustainable development, sustainable facilities management, public energy policy and renewable & sustainable energy use in built environment. Macro-level dynamics in urbanization, housing policy, urban land use planning, gentrification and urban redevelopment and the interactions between them.

Research Interests
Urban management; real estate management; sustainable urbanization

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Dr. Bart WISSINK
Bart long term Respace project studies enclave urbanism in five Asian city regions: Bangkok, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Mumbai, and Tokyo). His research framework draws on actor-network theory, the mobilities paradigm, and social network theory. Publications focus on: 1) Urban controversies and ‘right to the city’ (e.g. Geoforum, 2013, 47: 1-11) 2) Enclave urbanism and urban fragmentation (e.g. Urban Geography, 2012, 33: 167-182) 3) Social networks and the neighbourhood (e.g. Urban Studies, 2012, 49: 1527-1549) Bart recently started a new ESRC/RGC funded project on Alpha territoriality in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom (together with Ray Forrest, Rowland Atkinson, and Roger Burrows). He is co-organiser of upcoming international workshops on ‘Actor-Network-Theory and Urban Studies’ (together with Dominique Boulier, Sciences Po, Paris) and ‘Living in Enclave Cities: Towards an activity-based approach to urban segregation’ (together with Ronald van Kempen, Utrecht University and Tim Schwanen, Oxford University).

Research Interests
Urban political economy; urban politics; urban sociology; urban planning

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Dr. ZHANG Jun


Research Interests
Social Transformation and Urban Development; Mobility and Class Politics; Infrastructures and Spatial Politics; Science, Technology and Society in Asia; China Studies

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Dr. DONG Liang

Dr. Dong Liang obtained his B.E. in Environmental engineering from Tsinghua University, China, and Ph.D. in Urban Environmental Studies from Nagoya University, Japan. Before joining City University, he worked in National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan, and Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Netherlands, in the field of industrial ecology, circular economy and low-carbon & eco-city planning.

His research focuses on applying principles of Industrial Ecology to fight to the challenges of developing sustainable, smart and low-carbon cities, with emphasis on the sustainability science & policies, environmental system analysis, and policies design under the theme of urban sustainability. Sub-topics also include development on holistic and integrated socioeconomic and environmental system analytical tools (e.g., life cycle assessment, urban metabolism approach, input-output model and their integration), sustainability indicators/policies, energy and environmental economic approaches, big data and spatial planning tools, and their applications in eco-industrial development, as well as sustainable, low-carbon and smart cities planning. He took charge of and engaged in a series of national level circular economy, smart cities, and low-carbon cities projects in EU, Japan and China. He also actively engaged in providing broad academic services, like consulting to UN-ESCAP, Energy Foundation and many local stakeholders of Industrial and Urban planning, to forward circular, eco and low-carbon urban and regional transition in EU, Asia-Pacific and globe.



Research Interests
Urban sustainability and Sustainable Urban Planning; Environmental management & Policies; Industrial Ecology and Environmental system analysis; Eco-industrial development (EID) and Eco-industrial parks (EIPs); Low-carbon city, Eco-city and Smart city

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Dr. Lock Betty YUNG


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Dr. WANG Jun
June Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy at the City University of Hong Kong. Her research lies at the intersection of urban geography and cultural politics, centring on state-society relations amidst Asian cities’ urbanization, with special concern to creative/cultural cities and recently, smart cities. Her long-term research interest dwells on the always ongoing process of (re-)territorialisation of state space, that is, how the intertwined political and economic logics put human and non-human things on the move, resulting in ceaseless re-configuration of territory, economy and population. She has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed journals papers and chapters, on journals such as EPA; Geoforum; IJURR; Political Geography; South Atlantic Quarterly; Urban Geography, and Territory, Politics, Governance. She has edited books with Routledge and Edward Elgar, and special issues on EPA, Geoforum; Journal of Urban Affairs, and City, Culture and Society. 

Research Interests
Platform urbanism; Cultural cities/creative cities, critical heritage studies; Territorialization, political geography; Social geography, citizenship. mobility

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Dr. HU Wanyang

Dr. Hu Wanyang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at the City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in urban development, migration, and housing. Dr. Hu is a quantitative social scientist who is interested in leveraging big data analytics and statistical tools to examine urban issues. Her research has appeared in the Journal of the American Planning Association, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Cities, etc.

Dr. Hu received an M.S. and a B.S. from Tsinghua University in 2013 and 2010 respectively, and a B.A. (double major in Economics) from Peking University in 2012. Prior to joining City U, Dr. Hu was an assistant professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau.



Research Interests

Migration (labor mobility); Urban development (creative city development); Social determinants of health (well-being and aging); Urban big data analytics



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Alice Yuet Wah AU-YEUNG
AU-YEUNG Alice worked in the Transport Department of HKSAR for over 30 years, responsible for transport operations, planning and management. She retired in 2013 with her last posting as Principal Transport Officer (Urban Regional Office). Alice is currently undertaking a research about non-franchised bus in Hong Kong.

Research Topic
Transport policy, Transport planning and management, Transport-related environmental control measures.

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Ray C.C. CHEUNG
Ray Chak-Chung Cheung received the B.Eng.(Hons) and M.Phil. degrees in computer engineering and computer science & engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 1999 and 2001 respectively, and the DIC and Ph.D. degree in computing from Imperial College London (IC) in 2007. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at City University of Hong Kong, and with Digital Systems Lab. His current research interests include cryptographic hardware designs and design exploration of System-on-Chip (SoC) designs and embedded system designs. He is the treasurer of the IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter. He is the author of over 25 journal papers and over 40 conference papers.

Research Topic
High-Performance & Customisable Biomedical and Bioinformatics Computing, Reconfigurable Trusted Computing, VLSI/FPGA Circuit Designs, Cryptography, System-on-Chip Architecture, Embedded System Designs

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Ka Yui Charles LEUNG
Charles Ka Yui Leung received his B.S.Sc. at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1991 and Ph.D. at University of Rochester in 1996. He has taught at the ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong (Department of Economics). He received the Fulbright Scholarship (Research) in year 2004-5 and has been a visiting scholar at FisherCenter for Real Estate and Urban Economics at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley (2004-5); Hoover Institution, Stanford University (several times); Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2013 Fall); Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University (2015 Spring). Since 2012, Dr. Leung also serves as a research associate of the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Dr. Leung is also a (non-resident) visiting research fellow of ISER, Osaka University (May 2015 ~ April 2016).

Research Topic
Real Estate, Urban Economics, Macroeconomics

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Dr. TALAMINI Gianni

Dr. Gianni Talamini joined City University of Hong Kong in 2016. His research investigates the relationship between spatial forms and modes of production. Since the early 2000s, he explored the role of water in shaping the built environment. Before joining City University, he gained international experience both as researcher and practitioner, combining the construction of his theoretical framework with the profession of architecture. Working on the boundary between art and architecture, he managed the construction of installations designed by worldwide most famous architects and artists such as Tadao Ando, Patrick Bouchain, Daniel Buren, Cai Guo-Qiang, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Jene Highstein, Steven Holl, Carsten Holler, Arata Isozaki, Morphosis, Yoko Ono, Paola Pivi, Jaume Plensa, Kiki Smith, Williams & Tsien and Lebbeus Woods. He collaborated on the realization of several art and architecture exhibitions. In 2012 he has been in charge of the restoration of the Finnish Pavilion designed by Alvar Aalto at the Venice Biennale (Italy).

Dr. Talamini completed with full marks his Ph.D. in Urbanism at Iuav University of Venice under prof. Bernardo Secchi, in 2013. He also holds a Master's degree in Architecture (Iuav University of Venice, 2007). Before joining City University, he has been working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at HITSGS (2014-2016).



Research Topic
Stormwater Management, Blue-green Infrastructure, Porosity of Spatial Structures, Timber Framing Constructions, Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Theory of Aesthetics

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Dr. Mei-yung LEUNG
Dr. Leung is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong. She has attracted over HK$19 million for various research projects, including 9 GRF and ITF projects from the research grants council of HKSAR, and published over 150 refereed publications in international journals and conferences. Research areas covers value management, stress management, construction education and facilities management. Some of research studies have been published a book with the title of 'Stress management in the construction industry'. She has received a number of international awards, including Tony Toy Memorial Award issued by the HKIVM, Thomas D. Snodgrass Value Teaching Award issued by the SAVE international in the USA, Academic Excellence Awards issued by the Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors, Academia Best Paper Award issued by the Miles Value Foundation in the USA, Teaching Excellence Award issued by the CityU. Dr. Leung is also a senior Fulbright Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Southern California in the USA in 2014-15.

Research Topic
Construction Education, Facilities Management, Stress Management, Value Management

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