Wei-Hsin Liao is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has taught at CUHK since August 1997 and chaired the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering from August 2018 to July 2024. His research centres on smart and adaptive structures; he has published more than four hundred technical papers in international journals and conference proceedings and holds twenty-seven patents. He was conference chair of the twentieth International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies in 2009 and of the Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems conference at SPIE Smart Structures/NDE in 2014 and 2015, and has received awards for his work.
Liao has long worked on smart structures, accumulating more than four hundred papers and twenty-seven patents, and chaired the department for six years, taking a direct part in the development of local mechanical engineering teaching and research.
Achievements
- 1997 · Joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- 2009 · Chaired the twentieth International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies.
- 2018 · Became chairman of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, serving until 2024.