Prof. Charles W. W. Ng

• Vice-President (Guangzhou) & Chair Professor of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, HKUST
• Changjiang Scholar (Chair Professorship)
• Past President, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
• Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering
• Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences

Professor Charles W. W. Ng is a Vice-President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Guangzhou campus. He is also the Dean of HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School, CLP Holdings Professor of Sustainability and a Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Hong Kong campus. He is also a Changjiang Scholar (Chair Professorship in Geotechnical Engineering).

Professor Ng is Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, and Overseas Fellow of Churchill College, the University of Cambridge. He is the first Chinese elected to be President of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (2017-2022) since the establishment of the Society in 1936.

Professor Ng has supervised more than 60 PhD and 62 MPhil students to graduation.He received the 2020 National Natural Science Award (2nd class) and the 2015 Scientific Technological Advancement Award (2nd class) from the State Council of China.