Professor Mingxin HUANG
黃明欣
FHKEng [2025]
Chair Professor, Head of Department, Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Hong Kong
- Founding Member, The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences
- Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, (FIMMM)
- Changjiang Scholar Chair Professor (長江學者講座教授), Ministry of Education of China, 2020
- Awardee, Hong Kong Engineering Science and Technology Award
- Awardee, The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars
- Hong Kong Engineering Science and Technology Award, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering, 2023
- Outstanding Researcher Award, The University of Hong Kong, 2023
- Innovator Award, The University of Hong Kong, 2023
- Top 1% worldwide by citations, Clarivate Analytics, 2023
- Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, Croucher Foundation, 2022
- Top 1% worldwide by citations, Clarivate Analytics, 2022
- Top 1% worldwide by citations, Clarivate Analytics, 2021
- Xplorer Prize (科學探索獎), Tencent Foundation, 2021
- Outstanding Researcher Output Prize, The University of Hong Kong, 2021
- Gold Medal, Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, 2021
- National Distinguished Young Scholars (國家傑出青年), The National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2024, the first recipient in Hong Kong in the field of Engineering
Prof. Huang received his BEng and MSc in Mechanics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2002 and 2004, respectively, and his PhD in Materials Science in 2008 from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands. From 2008 to 2010, he worked as a research engineer at ArcelorMittal (the largest steel company in the world) in Maizieres-les-Metz, France. Prof. Huang joined University of Hong Kong in 2010 as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2016, full Professor in 2019 and Chair Professor in 2023.
BEng
Engineering Mechanics
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
MSc
Engineering Mechanics
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
PhD
Materials Science
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands