Professional biography:

Academic Qualifications

BSc, MSc, Dip.Ed., MBA, PhD, Ceng.

Fellowships

FIEAust, FIOM3, FSAE, FEANI, FWTIA, FAPAPI, FTWI

Awards, Medals & Prizes

7 International and 5 National. Honourary Professor at Tsinghua University (China).

International Career – Academia

University of Wollongong (Australia), Queensland University of Technology (Australia), Swinburne University (Australia).

Industry

STI (Hong Kong), SFI Group (China), BMW (Germany).

Sabbaticals

Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan Management, and Stanford University

Published Works

Over 280 publications including 106 Journal Articles, 7 Book Chapters, 45 Invited, 85 Conference Refereed, 37 Conference Non-refereed, 15 Keynote Addresses, 9 Patents and in addition 50 Technical Reports.

Executive / Advisory Boards

WIPO (Switzerland), 5 Cooperative Research Centres (Australia), Minister for Manufacturing (Australia), National MEMS Centre (Singapore), HKPC (Hong Kong).

Current research interests: 

The main focus of R&D is in the fields of smart multifunctional materials (fibres, films and foams), and passive and active electromagnetic irradiation phenomena. Specific areas include:

Self-power regenerators and energy conversion systems (piezoelectric and electrostrictive)
Metamorphic materials-electrorheological and magnetorheological fluids
Passive microwave thermal radiometry
Active power microwave irradiation interactions Atmospheric micro-plasma applications