Professor Joseph Hun-wei Lee
BSc, MSc, PhD, MIT; MASCE, FHKIE, MCIWEM

Department of Civil Engineering

(852) 2859 2672

hreclhw@hku.hk

Biography

Professor Joseph Hun-wei Lee grew up in Hong Kong and obtained his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA (1969-1977). He joined HKU as a Lecturer in 1980. His research interests lie at the interface between hydraulics/fluid mechanics and environmental engineering and these include all types of problems related to the prediction and control of water quality. He has edited six books and published over 100 technical articles. His particular contributions include methods for predicting initial mixing of buoyant wastewater discharges, which are used internationally for outfall design and environmental impact assessment. He is an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, China Ocean Engineering, Water Quality and Ecosystem Modeling, Korea International Journal of Water Engineering Research, and Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. For his contributions to environmental hydraulics, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship by the German Government in 1991 and the Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship in 1998. He is also Consulting/Advisory Professor of Hohai University and Tongji University.

Over the past two decades, Professor Lee has served as expert consultant/advisor on many projects that include the UK Marine Outfall Design Guide, Sydney Deepwater Outfall Modelling Study, Deep Bay Water Quality Regional Control Strategy Study, Hong Kong Strategic Sewage Disposal Scheme, Shanghai Sewage Project, Yuen Long Bypass Floodway Model Study, Tai Hang Tung Flood Storage Scheme, and the European Economic Community Harmful Algal Bloom Expert System (HABES 2001) group research project. He is a Council Member of the International Association for Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) and Vice-Chairman of the IAHR Asian-Pacific Division. He has also served on the Engineering Panel of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council from 1993 to 1999, and also as the Chairman of the University Grants Committee Research Assessment Exercise (1999) Built Environment Panel. (Homepage: http://www.hku.hk/civil/envhydraulics or http://www.aoe-water.hku.hk)