Professor Jin-Guang Teng has been President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 1 July 2019. Before that he was Vice-President and Dean of the Graduate School at the Southern University of Science and Technology. PolyU's biography records that he was born in Wenzhou, China, received his BEng from Zhejiang University in 1983 and his PhD from the University of Sydney in 1990. He was a visiting PhD student and then researcher at the University of Edinburgh from 1989 to 1991, a lecturer and then senior lecturer at James Cook University of North Queensland from 1991 to 1994, and joined the then Hong Kong Polytechnic as a lecturer in civil and structural engineering in October 1994, becoming chair professor in January 2005. At PolyU he served as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Land Use (2005–06), Associate Vice President (2006–10), Dean of the Faculty of Construction and Land Use and then the Faculty of Construction and Environment (2007–13), and director of the Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (2012–18). A structural engineer, he has published a book and more than 200 SCI journal papers. The university records that on Stanford University's list of the top 2% most-cited scientists he ranked seventh or eighth globally and first or second nationally in civil engineering from 2019 to 2025 on career-long citation impact, and that many of his findings have been adopted in design codes and guidelines in China, the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom and Australia. He was elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2013, a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015, a Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences in 2023 and an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2025. His awards include the State Natural Science Award (Second Class) in 2013, the Distinguished Young Scholar Award of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2004 and the inaugural IIFC Medal in 2008. He was President of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences and then the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering from 2022 to 2024, chairs the Board of the Hong Kong Alliance of Technology and Innovation, sits on the government's Committee on Innovation, Technology and Industry Development, was appointed a non-official Justice of the Peace in 2021, received the Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2024 and became a member of the 14th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2023.
Achievements
- 2017 · Elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2019 · Became President of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University