IAS Visiting Professor Chih-Ming Ho was conferred honorary
doctorate of Engineering in HKUST’s 22nd Congregation
held on 7 November 2014. Prof Ho is currently the Ben
Rich-Lockheed Martin Chair Professor at the University of
California at Los Angeles. He is widely recognized as a
global front-runner in fluid mechanics, and has also
pioneered advances in microfluidics and biomolecular
sensors, among other areas. He is ranked by the Institute
Throughout the years, there are eight IAS Visiting Professors
who have received HKUST honorary doctorates:
IAS Visiting Professor
Honorary Degree
Year
Prof Chih-Ming Ho
Doctor of Engineering honoris causa
2014
Prof Marvin Cohen
Doctor of Science honoris causa
2013
Prof Evelyn Hu
Doctor of Engineering honoris causa
2013
Prof Bright Sheng
Doctor of Humanities honoris causa
2013
Prof Eli Yablonovitch
Doctor of Engineering honoris causa
2011
Prof Aaron Ciechanover
Doctor of Science honoris causa
2008
Prof Shuji Nakamura
Doctor of Engineering honoris causa
2008
Prof Yuen-Ron Shen
Doctor of Science honoris causa
1997
Prof Chih-Ming Ho at the HKUST 22nd Congregation 2014
Prof Bright Sheng (2nd from left), Prof Marvin Cohen and
Prof Evelyn Hu (2nd and 3rd from right) were awarded HKUST
honorary doctorates in 2013.
IAS VISITING
PROFESSOR
CONFERRED
HKUST
HONORARY
DOCTORATE
for Scientific Information (ISI) as one of the top 250 most
cited researchers worldwide in the entire engineering
category. Prof Ho joined IAS as Visiting Professor since
2011 and has given distinguished lectures to the public on
bio system technologies. He collaborates with Profs Karl
Tsim of Life Science and Yi-Kuen Lee of Mechanical &
Aerospace Engineering at HKUST on Traditional Chinese
Medicine research.
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