“We are all different — but we share the same human spirit.”
- Stephen Hawking -
Principal Investigator
Ir Prof. Edwin C.Y. Tso
Associate Dean (Internationalisation and Outreach)
Associate Professor
BEng(Hons), MPhil, PhD, CEng, MHKIE, MCIBSE, MIMechE, MASME, RPE
RGC Research Fellow
Top 2% of the World’s Most Highly Cited Scientists in Mechanical Engineering Since 2020
Office: YEUNG-G5441
Emaill: chiytso@cityu.edu.hk
Research Interests:
Passive Radiative Cooling; Thermochromic Smart Windows; Solar Energy and Water Harvesting; Heat Transfer; Building Thermal Management; Thermofluids; Energy Conversion; Indoor Built Environment; Energy Efficient Building Technology
Post-doctoral Fellows
Research Interests:
Heat transfer, energy conversion, and engineered materials
Academic Qualifications:
BEng in Water Supply and Drainage Engineering from South China University of Technology; MSc in Intelligent Building Management and Technology from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; PhD in Energy and Environment from City University of Hong Kong
Research Interests:
Smart Window
Academic Qualifications:
PhD
Research Interests:
Radiative cooling textiles, Surface functionalization of textiles, Textile coloration, Green synthesis of nanoparticles, transparent woods, Construction and building materials, Sustainable products development
Academic Qualifications:
PhD in Material Science (Hungary), MSc in Textile Engineering (China), MBA in Textiles (Bangladesh)
Research Interests:
Smart Window
Academic Qualifications:
PhD in Materials Science
Dr. DU Jiayu
Post-doctoral Fellow
Office: LI2201
jiayudu@cityu,edu.hk
Research Interests:
Droplet impact dynamics, Efficient liquid cooling, Superhydrophobic/superhydrophilic
Academic Qualifications:
PhD, Tsinghua University
Research Interests:
Heat transfer, solar steam generation, advanced nano-technologies, water harvesting, and electrokinetic power generation
Academic Qualifications:
PhD in Energy and Environment
Research Interests:
Heat and Mass Transfer; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Combustion
Academic Qualifications:
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests:
Radiative cooling, Building Energy, Renewable energy,
Flow assurance, Heat transfer
Academic Qualifications:
PhD
Research Interests:
Radiative cooling, Thermal management and Plasmonic heating
Academic Qualifications:
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
Radiative Cooling
Academic Qualifications:
PhD in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics
Research Interests:
Self-powered wearable electronics, Advanced electroanalytical and electro-mapping
Academic Qualifications:
PhD in Energy and Environment
Research Interests:
Perovskite solar cells
Academic Qualifications:
PhD in Energy and Environment
Research Interests:
Heat transfer, CFD, radiative cooling
Academic Qualifications:
PhD
Dr. Cherry Shengxi BAI
Post-doctoral Fellow
Office: G5316
shengbai-c@my.cityu.edu.hk
Research Interests:
Adsorption; Atmospheric water harvesting
Academic Qualifications:
PhD
Research Interests:
Solar PV/T utilization, Advanced building envelope, Indoor thermal/daylighting environment
Academic Qualifications:
PhD in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics
Research Interests:
Passive radiative cooling, Thermal transfer, Coating, Green building, Building envelope material
Academic Qualifications:
PhD in Energy and Environment
Research Interests:
Radiative cooling, thermochromic smart windows
Academic Qualifications:
PhD in Thermal Energy
Research Interests:
Smart windows, water and energy harvesting
Academic Qualifications:
PhD in Biomedical Sciences
PhD Students
Research Interests:
Passive radiative cooling, smart textile
Academic Qualifications:
Master
Research Interests:
Passive radiative cooling, Heat Transfer
Academic Qualifications:
BEng. Harbin Engineering University, MEng. Xi'an Jiaotong University
Research Interest：
Heat and Mass Transfer; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Academic Qualifications：
BEng. GuangXi University
MEng. Xi'an Jiaotong University
Research Interest：
Perovskite Thermochromic Smart Windows
Academic Qualifications：
MSc in Chemical engineering
Research Interest：
Radiative Cooling, Window, Building Energy Management
Academic Qualifications：
Master of Engineering (Vehicle Engineering)
Research Interests:
Perovskite Thermochromic Smart Windows
Academic Qualifications:
MSc in Intelligent Building Technology and Management; BEng in Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering
Research Interests:
Mathematical simulation in various physical phenomena
Academic Qualifications:
Mathematical simulation in various physical phenomena
Research Interest：
Radiative cooling and smart window
Academic Qualifications：
Master degree
Research Interest：
Thermochromic Smart Windows
Academic Qualifications：
BEng. China University of Mining and Technology
Msc. Imperial College London
Research Interests:
Hybrid perovskites
Academic Qualifications:
BEng. South China University of Technology MSc. Hubei University
Research Interests:
Carbon dots as radiative cooling dyes
Academic Qualifications:
BSc in Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Research Interest：
Heat Transfer, Passive radiative cooling
Academic Qualifications：
Master degree in Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics
Research Interest：
Radiative Cooling and Evaporative Cooling
Academic Qualifications：
BEng. China University of Mining and Technology
Msc. National University of Singapore
Research Assistant
Mr. David Tuwei LIAO
Research Interests:
Radiative cooling
Academic Qualifications:
Master in Energy and Power
