Prof Ron Chen being Titled Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Chair Professor of Engineering

Prof Ron Chen, EE Chair Professor and Director of the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks, has been appointed as Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Chair Professor of Engineering, which is supported by the Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund (SHECF).

Named professorships represent the highest honour that a university can bestow upon a scholar for his/her outstanding academic and research achievements. It is also a lasting tribute to the donor who establishes the endowment or financially supports the Scheme. Prof Chen is a world-recognized scholar in the areas of nonlinear systems control and dynamics, as well as complex networks. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 1997 and became a Life Fellow in 2019. He has been put on the Highly Cited Researchers List (Clarivate Analytics) 2021 for the field “Engineering” and has been on the list for 9 years. He was also awarded EE Outstanding Teacher Awards in 2021, 2019, 2015, 2014 and 2013.