
Dean of Engineering
Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director of GREAT Smart Cities Institute
Director of HKUST-MTR Joint Lab
Lead of DISCO
Tel: (852) 2358-6952
Fax: (852) 2358-1458
Professor Hong K. LO is Dean of Engineering, Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of GREAT Smart Cities Institute of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His expertise includes smart city, dynamic transportation system modeling, traffic control, network reliability, and public transportation analysis. He was one of the Most Cited Researchers in Civil Engineering in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Moreover, Professor Lo was elected as Convener of the conference series Advanced Systems for Public Transportation (CASPT), serves as Founding Editor-in-Chief of Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, Managing Editor of Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Professor Lo was awarded the prestigious triennial World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR) Prize, Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) Outstanding Paper Award, and School of Engineering Research Excellence Award. Prof Lo is appointed as a Justice of the Peace (JP) by the Hong Kong government, and is a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (FCILT), Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Highway and Transportation (FIHT), Fellow of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (FHKSTS), and elected as a Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (FHKEng).
Experience
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
School of Engineering
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Dean, 2023 -
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Associate Dean, 2011-2015
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Chair Professor, 2014 -
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Department Head, 2015-2021
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Director, 2018 -
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University of California, Berkeley
Institute of Transportation Studies​
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Assistant Research Engineer (PATH program)
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
Center for Transportation Analysis
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Postdoctoral Research Staff
Vacancies Available
If you are interested in any of the following, please send your CV to me, cehklo@ust.hk
This PhD Fellowship scheme, offered by Hong Kong Research Grants Council, aims to recruit top talents from around the world to undertake PhD studies in Hong Kong. It is highly prestigious and only admits the very best in the world. If you have a proven record of academic excellence, research ability and potential, good communication and interpersonal skills, and leadership abilities, you are welcome to contact me to initiate the application procedure.
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The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship provides an annual stipend of HK$337,200 (~US$43,230) and a conference and research related travel allowance of HK$14,000 (~US$1,790) per year to each awardee for a period of three years. For awardees making excellent progress in research and who will need more time beyond the three-year period to finish their studies, I will continue the financial support with my research projects. Interested candidates should apply between August and November each year. More information can be found at http://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.html
Postdoctoral Research position
If your research background fits my research interests, please send your CV to me, indicating potential areas of collaboration