Ir Professor Charles Wang Wai NG
吳宏偉
FHKEng [2008]
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Vice President, Council,
2020-2024
Member, Council,
2019-2020
Chair Professor of Civil and Geoenvironmental Engineering, the CLP Holdings Professor of Sustainability, and Dean of FYT Graduate School, Vice-President for Graduate Studies (Guangzhou campus)
- CEng
- FICE(UK)
- FHKIE
- FASCE(USA)
- Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, the University of Cambridge, 2005
- Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2020
- President, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2017-2022
- Board Member, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2010-2013
- Changjiang Scholar (Chair Professorship in Geotechnical Engineering), Ministry of Education in China, 2010
Professor Ng earned his PhD degree from the University of Bristol in 1993. After carrying out postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge between 1993 and 1995, he returned to Hong Kong and joined HKUST as Assistant Professor in 1995, where he rose through the ranks to become Chair Professor in 2011.
He has supervised 74 PhD and 65 M.Phil students from 23 countries to graduation. He has also delivered more than 100 keynotes and state-of-the-art reports across the six continents. He is the main author of three reference books: “A Short Course in Soil-structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels” published by Thomas Telford in 2004, and “Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Engineering” and “Plant-Soil Slope Interaction” by CRC: Taylor & Francis in 2007 and 2019, respectively.
He has received many awards such as the 2020 National Natural Science Award by the State Council of China (國家2020年度自然科學二等奖), 2022 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress (何梁何利基金科學與技術進步獎), 2022 the Vernes Medal by the UNESCO-International Consortium on Landslides (联合国教科文组织下属国际滑坡学会), 2015 Scientific Technological Advancement Award by the State Council of China (國家2015年度科技進步獎二等獎), the 2017 Telford Premium Prize from the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the R. M. Quigley Award from the Canadian Geotechnical Society three times in 2007, 2012 & 2016. Moreover, he received the Teaching Excellent Appreciation Award 2018-19 (HKUST).
Former Director of Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility; Former Associate Dean of Engineering, Former Associate Vice-President at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
MSc(Eng)
Advanced Structural Engineering
University of Southampton
1987
PhD
Civil Engineering
The University of Bristol, UK
1993
cecwwng@ust.hk
Telephone Number (Office)
2358 8760
Facsimile
2358 1534
Address
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong