Faculty Knowledge Exchange Awards 2026
The Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards were introduced in 2011 to recognise each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organisations.
Nominations in each Faculty were considered by an Ad Hoc Faculty KE Award Selection Committee chaired by the Dean, and members included the Faculty representative serving on the KE Working Group, Director of the Knowledge Exchange Office (KEO) or her representative, and a member from outside the University.
The selection criteria include quality of the underpinning research and the impact with support of evidence, effectiveness of the engagement process with the community or partner organisations, and demonstration of cross- and multi-disciplinary impacts.
The following colleagues have won the Faculty KE Awards 2026:
Faculty of Architecture:
Professor Wilson Weisheng Lu , Department of Real Estate and Construction, and team members – Professor Anthony Yeh, Department of Urban Planning and Design; Professor Frank Xue and Professor Junjie Chen, Department of Real Estate and Construction
‘MiC Trio: A Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Blockchain-enabled Platform for Modular Intergrated Construction (MiC) Digital Transformation’
Faculty of Arts:
Professor Peter Cobb, School of Humanities
‘Understanding Our Shared Human Past through Archaeology: Multidisciplinary Public Outreach by HKU’s Archaeological Expedition to Armenia’
Faculty of Business and Economics (HKU Business School):
Professor Echo Wen Wan, Professor Bennett Chi Kin Yim, Professor Yiwen Zhang and Professor Michael He Jia, HKU Business School
‘Rebuilding Resilience in the Workplace through Organizational Support and Employee Self-Regulatory Strategies’
Faculty of Dentistry:
Professor Walter Yu Hang Lam and team members – Professor Chun Hung Chu, Professor Ollie Yu, Dr Khaing Myat Thu, Dr Reinhard Chau, Mr Kaijing Mao, Dr Zhaoting Ling, Dr Xiaoyu Chen, Dr Zhouhong Gong, Dr Josie Zhang and Dr Ruonan Zhang, Faculty of Dentistry
‘AI-Assisted Oral Health Screening and Education: Promoting Awareness and Preventive Care for Hong Kong's Elderly Population’
Faculty of Education:
Professor Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan, Faculty of Education
‘AI Policy and Literacy in Education’
Faculty of Engineering:
Professor Jintao Ke and team members – Professor Wai Yuen Szeto and Dr Ryan Wong, Department of Civil Engineering
‘Development of a Simulation Platform and Artificial Intelligent Algorithms for Optimising Operation and Management of Taxi E-hailing Services’
Faculty of Law:
Professor Puja Kapai Paryani, Faculty of Law
‘Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, Belonging Laboratory (DEIJB Lab)’
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine:
Professor Philip Hei Li, Department of Medicine
‘The Hong Kong Model for Penicillin “Allergy” Delabelling: Global Knowledge Exchange for Antimicrobial Stewardship’
Faculty of Science:
Professor Bayden Russell, School of Biological Sciences
‘Restoring Hong Kong’s lost oyster reefs with NGOs, community, and Government’
Faculty of Social Sciences:
Professor Vivian Weiqun Lou and team members – Professor Amy Yin Man Chow, Professor Cecilia Lai Wan Chan and Ms Gloria Ka Ming Chun, Department of Social Work and Social Administration
‘The Jockey Club End-of-Life Community Care Project’
My heartiest congratulations to all the colleagues concerned on their stellar achievements in KE.
Professor Stephanie Ma
Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)(Interim)