HUB
LEADERSHIP
MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
The Systems Hub aims to foster professional elites with global vision and can-do mindset. We wish the prospect students of the Systems Hub are someone with curiosity to knowledge, responsibility to the world, and empathy to mankind. Curiosity motivates the efforts for research. Sense of responsibility enables people to dedicate themselves to their society. Empathy promotes open innovation among peers.
Robert Zhong QI
Systems Hub
INTRODUCTION OF THE DEAN
Robert Zhong QI
PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Calgary, 1996
Dr. Robert Qi is currently Acting Dean of the Systems Hub, concurrently serving as Professor and Head of the Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering Thrust at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).Prior to this appointment, he was Professor in the Division of Life Science at HKUST (Hong Kong). From 2018 to 2022, he served as Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator of the Proteomics Group at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore, before moving to HKUST (Hong Kong). Prof. Qi is an accomplished scholar who has produced many high-quality research publications in impactful journals. His research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate microtubule cytoskeletal organization during cell division and morphogenesis, and how defects in these mechanisms result in diseases, such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. His group has made several breakthrough discoveries in the control of microtubule cytoskeletal organization in animal cells by identifying the regulators of microtubule growth initiation, and the findings have helped understanding the control mechanisms of microtubule-dependent physiological and pathological cellular events.
INTRODUCTION OF THE ASSOCIATE DEAN
Jun WU
PhD in Biomedical Engineering
Cornell University, 2011
Dr. Jun Wu joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) as an Associate Professor in Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering Thrust in 2022. He also holds an affiliated Associate Professor position at the Division of Life Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before that, Dr. Wu is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University from 2015 to 2022. Dr. Wu finished his BS, MS and PhD degree at Nanjing University, SUNY at Stony Brook, and Cornell University. During 2010 to 2015, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Professors Robert Langer and Omid Farokhzad to study the polymeric nanomedicine at Harvard Medical School(HMS) and MIT. In 2015, he was promoted to Instructor at HMS. Dr. Wu is interested in developing novel biomaterials (polymers and small molecules) as drug carriers/tissue engineering scaffolds to treat important diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, bone regeneration and skin repairing. His research areas include drug delivery, tissue engineering, nanomedicine and theranostics.
Yunda Wang
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering,
University of Colorado Boulder, 2012
Dr. Yunda Wang is currently an Associate Professor in the Smart Manufacturing Thrust at the Systems Hub, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), and serves as the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Micro-Nano Integration Lab (MNIL). His research focuses on emerging micro/nano fabrication technologies, advanced microsystem integration, and scalable construction of next-generation electronic devices. Dr. Wang received his bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Peking University, and the University of Colorado Boulder, respectively. In 2013, he joined PARC, a Xerox company, where he served as a Postdoctoral Researcher, Researcher, and Senior Researcher. His work has been published in leading journals such as Science, Microsystems & Nanoengineering, and Applied Physics Letters, and has been featured by major media outlets including Xinhua News Agency and Phys.org. He currently leads several major research programs funded by national, provincial, and municipal agencies.
