The Immediate Past President - Professor Charles W.W. Ng

Professor Charles W.W. Ng

Jean-Louis Briaud

Professor Charles W.W. Ng is a Vice-President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in Guangzhou campus and he is also the Dean of HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School, CLP Holdings Professor of Sustainability and Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at HKUST. Professor Ng is Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. Currently, he is a co-Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal.

 

Professor Ng earned his PhD degree from the University of Bristol, the UK in 1993. After carrying out post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge between 1993 and 1995, he returned to Hong Kong and joined HKUST as Assistant Professor in 1995 and rose through the ranks to become Chair Professor in 2011.

Professor Ng has supervised more than 60 PhD and 60 MPhil students to graduation and has published some 390 SCI journal articles and 250 conference papers and delivered more than 100 keynotes and state-of-the-art reports across the six continents. He is the main author of three reference books: (i) A Short Course in Soil-structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels by Thomas Telford in 2004, (ii) Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Engineering and (iii) Plant-Soil slope Interaction by CRC: Taylor & Francis in 2007 and 2019, respectively.

For more details, please visit my home page (https://charles-ng.hkust.edu.hk/)