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Dr. Xing LI will join the City University of Hong Kong as a Presidential Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry in May 2024. He received his BS from Nanyang Technological University and PhD from National University of Singapore (NUS). From 2018 to 2021, Dr. LI was a postdoctoral scholar at the Division of Chemistry, NUS, where he conducted interdisciplinary research on developing covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for energy storage applications. From 2021 to 2024, he was a part of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where his research centered on addressing climate change challenges by designing redox-tunable materials for electrochemical carbon capture.

Dr. LI's research focuses on developing synthetic toolkits for molecule-defined nanoporous materials, with applications spanning energy storage and carbon neutralization. His areas of focus include reticular chemistry, electrosynthesis, metal-gas batteries, and carbon capture. He has authored over 40 peer-reviewed papers with more than 3000 citations and an H-index of 29 (Google Scholar). His work has appeared in prestigious journals such as Nature Chemistry, Nature Synthesis, and Nature Energy.

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Dr. Yu SONG will join City University of Hong Kong as a Presidential Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in July 2024. He received his BS from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and PhD from Peking University. From 2021 to 2024, Dr. Song was a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, where he conducted interdisciplinary research at the intersection of engineering and biomedicine.

Dr. SONG's research focuses on developing bioelectronic devices through fundamental studies and practical biomedical applications. His areas of focus include skin-interfaced multimodal biosensors, battery-free wearable bioelectronics, additive manufacturing innovation, AI-powered health assessment, and closed-loop personalized medicine. Dr. Song has authored over 70 peer-reviewed papers with more than 6,300 citations and an H-index of 37 (Google Scholar). His work has appeared in prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Nature Electronics, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Science Robotics, and Science Advances. Dr. Song is the recipient of several honors including the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics and recognition as a World's Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University and Elsevier Scopus.

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Mr. Ziye MA will join City University of Hong Kong as a Presidential Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences in August 2024. He holds a B.A.Sc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto and Ph.D from the University of California, Berkeley. During his doctoral studies from 2019 to 2024 at UC Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, Mr. MA conducted research under the guidance of Professor Somayeh Sojoudi, focusing on advancing theoretical machine learning.

Mr. MA’s research focuses on global guarantees of non-convex optimization problems, low-rank matrix problems, and theoretical underpinnings of robustness and generalization in machine learning. His areas of focus include machine learning, mathematical optimization, and statistics. Mr. Ma has authored over 10 peer-reviewed papers, most of which published in top-tier AI/ML conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS, and AAAI. Several of these papers have been recognized as top papers and selected for oral presentations. He also serves as regular reviewers at top ML venues and has received honours like Berkeley’s outstanding graduate student instructor.