Professor Zhiyong FAN
范智勇
FHKEng [2025]
Chair Professor, Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Co-Director, State Key Laboratory of Displays & Opto-Electronics
- Gold Prize for invention of "Biomimetic O1factory Chip", International Exhibition of Inventions, Geneva, Switzerland, 2025
- Frontier Materials Scientist Award, International Conference on Frontier Materials, 2025
- Gold Prize for Invention of "Nanowire-based Artificial Retina for Visual Prosthesis and Robotics", International Exhibition of Inventions, Geneva, Switzerland, 2023
- Bronze Prize for invention of “Integrated Large-scale Nano-gas Sensor Array for Air Quality Monitoring and Odor Detection”, International Exhibition of Inventions, Geneva, Switzerland, 2023
- Gold Prize for invention of “Monolithically Integrated 3D High Density Sensor Array for Bionic Olfaction System", The 6th China (Shanghai) International Exhibition, 2023
- The inaugural BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize (首屆中銀香港科技創新獎), 2022
- Tencent Xplorer Prize (科學探索獎), Tencent New Corner Stone Foundation, 2022
- World’s top 2% most-cited scientist by Stanford University research, 2022 til now
- Top 10 Innovation and Technology News in Hong Kong, 2020
- Research Excellence Award, HKUST SENG, 2019
- Chairman of Board, AI-Sensing Technology, Co. Ltd., Guangdong, China
Prof. Zhiyong Fan is a Chair Professor at HKUST. He received B.S. and M. S. degrees from Fudan University, China, PhD degree from University of California, Irvine then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. He joined HKUST in 2010. Currently, he is the Co-director of the State Key Laboratory of Display and Opto-Electronics at HKUST. He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), Fellow of Optical Society of America, Academician of Asia Pacific Academy of Materials, Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering and founding member of Young Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong. His research interest is focused on functional nanomaterials and structures for electronic, optoelectronic and bionic electronic devices, bionic sensors for robotics, etc. Till date, he has published over 270 research papers in top journals including Nature, Nature Photonics, Nature Electronics, etc., with google scholar citations >35,000. He has won a number of awards, including 2022 Tencent Xplorer Prize, 2022 Bank of China Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Prize, etc.
BS
Materials Science
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Jun 1998
MS
Materials Science
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Jun 2001
PhD
Materials Science
University of California, Irvine
Dec 2006