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.

Ricky Shi-Wei LEE

Systems Hub

INTRODUCTION OF THE DEAN

Ricky Shi-Wei LEE

PhD in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Purdue University, 1992

Ricky Lee received his PhD degree in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University in 1992. Currently he is Chair Professor of Smart Manufacturing Thrust and Dean of Systems Hub at HKUST(GZ). He also has concurrent appointments as Executive Director of Shenzhen Platform Development Office, Director of Electronic Packaging Laboratory, and Director of Foshan Research Institute for Smart Manufacturing at HKUST. Dr. Lee has been focusing his research on the technology development for electronics/optoelectronics packaging and additive manufacturing. His R&D activities cover wafer level packaging and heterogeneous integration, 3D printing for microsystems packaging, LED packaging for solid-state lighting and applications beyond lighting, lead-free soldering and reliability analysis. In addition to numerous technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings, Dr. Lee also co-authored 4 books and 10 book chapters. Dr. Lee is Fellow of IEEE, ASME, IMAPS, and Institute of Physics (UK). He is also Editor-in-Chief of ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging.

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.