Professor K.M. Liew is an elected Member of Academia Europaea (MAE) and elected Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (FHKEng). Currently, he is the Dean of Graduate Studies, Founding Director of Centre for Nature-Inspired Engineering, Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Sustainable Engineering and Chair Professor of Civil Engineering in City University of Hong Kong. Professor Liew was the Head of Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering from 2011 to 2017, and the Founding Director of Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media (CityU) from 2005 to 2009. Prior to joining CityU, he was a tenured Full Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), a Singapore-MIT Professorial Fellow, and the Founding Director of Nanyang Center for Supercomputing and Visualization. Over his academic career, he has published over 850 SCI journal articles. Professor Liew is listed by: (1) the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering (since 2001; (2) the Clarivate Analytics as the 2018 Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering, as well as the 2019, 2020 and 2021 Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field; and (3) the Stanford University's Report as top 2% most Highly-Cited scientists and ranked #1 in Asia in Computational Mathematics. His publications have been cited over forty-five thousand times and his current h-index is 105. To date, Professor Liew has attracted over US$50 million research and development funds from government funding agencies, industries and higher institutions. He has graduated over 80 PhD students and supervised over 70 Post-doctoral fellows. His students are well received by industries and many of them have become faculty members of universities worldwide.

Research Interests

Computational mechanics; Multiscale and multi-physics modeling; Sustainable materials and engineering; Nano and multifunctional materials; Optimization; Fire-inspired research

Selected Publications

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