Program Director
Associate Professor
PhD, Institute of Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Relevant Research Interest
High performance computing applications, first-principles computational modeling and data driven analysis
Associate Director
Development of new Monte Carlo methods, natural integration of machine learning techniques in conventional Monte Carlo methods, advanced machine learning techniques like deep neural networks or convolutional neural networks to solve problems which are impossible in conventional methods
Faculty
Chair Professor
PhD, The University of Hong Kong
Relevant Research Interest
Large sample theory, empirical processes, nonstationary time series, nonlinear time series, long memory time series, econometrics
Professor
PhD, Institute of Theoretical Physics,
The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Relevant Research Interest
Modeling, continuum and stochastic simulations of soft matter, study of rare events based on statistical physics
Associate Professor
PhD, Institute of Theoretical Physics,
The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Relevant Research Interest
Parameter extraction from data observations, creation of package for symbolic computations, teaching of Mathematica Programming short courses
Professor Emeritus
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Relevant Research Interest
Complex systems, statistical physics, neural computation, multi-agent systems, optimization, optimal control in telecommunication networks
Assistant Professor
PhD, The Georgia Institute of Technology
Relevant Research Interest
High-dimensional statistics, statistical machine learning, optimization and random matrices
Professor
PhD, New York University
Relevant Research Interest
Modeling and simulations in materials science, data science and image science, machine learning, partial differential equations and numerical analysis
Assistant Professor
PhD, The City University of New York
Relevant Research Interest
Soft condensed matter physics. complex fluids, liquid crystals (LCs), microfluidics and nanofluidics and computational fluid dynamics
Associate Professor of Science Education
PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Relevant Research Interest
Optimization
Teaching Staff
Adjunct Professor, Division of Integrative Systems and Design
Deputy Chairman & Non-executive Director, Tse Sui Luen Jewellery (International) Founder / Serial Entrepreneur for more than 20 companies
Relevant Research Interest
Entrepreneurship education
Adjunct Professor,
Department of Physics
Ph.D, University of Washington, Seattle
Relevant Research Interest
Complex systems (including topics in econophysics, sociophysics and biophysics)
Research Assistant Professor,
Department of Physics
Ph.D, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Relevant Research Interest
Computational physics, machine learning, high performance computing, condensed matter physics
Administrative Staff
Miss Florence CHENG
Assistant Manager (Administration)
Department of Physics, HKUST
Miss Anastasia LEUNG
Assistant Officer (Administration)
Department of Physics, HKUST
Mr. Tony SHING
Instructional Assistant
Department of Physics, HKUST
Dr. Ivan YIP
Instructional Assistant (Part-time)
Department of Physics, HKUST
Mr. Kai Ming LIU
Instructional Assistant (Part-time)
Department of Physics, HKUST