Ir Professor Wallace Woon Fong LEUNG
梁煥方
FHKEng [2010]
Senior Vice President, Council,
2024-2025
Member, Council,
2022-2024
Chair Professor of Innovative Products and Technologies, Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2005-Present)
- Elected Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013
- Elected Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2013
- Elected Fellow, American Filtration and Separations Society, 2005
- Elected Fellow, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, 2006
- Senior Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Member, American Chemical Society
- Member, Hong Kong Research Grant Council, 2008-2012
- Frank Tiller Award for life-time contribution in engineering and education on filtration and separations, American Filtration and Separations Society (AFS), 2015
- Gold Award, Geneva Invention, 2014
- Special Award, Romania Ministry of Education, 2014
- Wells Shoemaker Award, American Filtration & Separations Society, 2006
- Technical Achievement Award, Baker Hughes, 1992
- Senior Scientist Award, American Filtration & Separations Society, 2002
- Cedric Ferguson Medal, Society of Petroleum Engineers, 1987
- Sibley Award, Cornell Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, 1977, (highest graduating GPA)
- Chair, American Filtration & Separations Society, 2000
- Chair, International Delegation on Filtration, 2000-2004, led US team won the 9th World Filtration Congress, New Orleans, April, 2004
- Chair, International Delegation on Filtration with 12 member countries, 2016-2022, led US team won 13th World Filtration Congress, Oct 5-9, 2022, San Diego, CA, USA
Ir Professor Leung is a multidisciplinary engineer and educator having worked in industries and academia in both US and Hong Kong for 45 years. In the past 18 years, he has developed nanofiber technologies for use in energy, environmental and healthcare applications. He is also an expert on centrifugal separation having developed ten technologies that have been used worldwide in wastewater treatment and chemical, industrial, and mineral applications. His two textbooks, Industrial Centrifugation Technology(McGraw-Hill 1998) and Centrifugal Separations in Biotechnologies (Academic Press Ed. 1 2007; Ed. 2 2020), have been referenced extensively by researchers and practitioners in the world. He is an innovator with 55 US patents covering separation, energy, healthcare technologies, and environmental applications. His recent invention, the electrostatically charged nanofiber facemask, can combat ultrafine pollutants and coronavirus viruses. In 2021, he has authored a book entitled Nanofiber Filter Technologies for Filtering Submicron- and Nano-Aerosols, published by Elsevier. This book with over 500 pages documented the state-of-art nanofiber filter technologies for capturing harmful aerosols, including airborne coronavirus. He has also invented titania composite nanofibers with graphene core that have both semiconductor and highly conductive properties in the same material, which can be coated on most surfaces for reuse. The new material have been used in dye sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells with excellent enhancement. It can also be used in photocatalyst that can purify air breaking down harmful gases and disinfecting airborne viruses.
BSc
Mechanical & Aerospace
1st in Class
Cornell University
1977
MS
Mechanical Engineering
MIT
1978
ScD
Mechanical Engineering
MIT
1981
wallacewfleung@gmail.com