Professor Hong Yan, Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, has been elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was elected under the class Technical and Environmental Sciences in recognition of his work on intelligent multidimensional data analysis and imaging, video and biomedical applications. 
 
Professor Yan received his PhD from Yale University. He was formerly Professor of Imaging Science at the University of Sydney and served as Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at CityU. He was elected IAPR Fellow for his contributions to documenting image analysis and IEEE Fellow for contributions to image recognition techniques and applications. He received the 2016 Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE SMC Society for contributions to image and biomolecular pattern recognition techniques.
 
The European Academy of Sciences and Arts is a non-governmental, European association committed to promoting scientific and societal progress. Founded in 1990 as a learned society, the members are leading scientists, artists, and practitioners of governance, who are dedicated to innovative research, interdisciplinary and transnational collaboration as well as the exchange and dissemination of knowledge. Among its members are 32 Nobel laureates.