Six Engineering professors have been recognised on the Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list, reflecting their outstanding achievements in respective research areas. Released this year on 12 November by Clarivate Analytics, this annual list recognises researchers who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Each researcher selected has authored multiple papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for their fields and publication year in the Web of Science over the past decade. Engineering scholars (alphabetical order of family name) listed in the “Highly Cited Researchers 2025” are as follows: Category | Researcher | Titles and Department/Faculty | Research Areas |
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Cross-field | Professor Heng Pheng-Ann | Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering | Artificial intelligence, medical imaging, visual computing, extended reality | Professor Martin Stolterfoht | Vice-Chancellor Associate Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering | Perovskite and organic solar cells, perovskite-based tandem solar cells, optoelectronic devices, charge transport and recombination, ionic transport, device simulations, optoelectronic and spectroscopic thin film characterisation | Professor Xu Jianbin | Associate Dean (Mainland Affairs), Choh-Ming Li Professor of Electronic Engineering, Director of Materials Science and Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering | Near-field and nanoscopic sensing and imaging, nanoelectronics/nanophotonics, thin film technology, physics and technology of organic semiconductor devices, oxide-based electronics, hybrid perovskite optoelectronics, 2D material electronics/ optoelectronics, advanced thermal management, AI4X | Professor Zhao Ni | Professor and Department Vice-Chair (Graduate), Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering | Optoelectronic, electronic and electrochemical devices based on organic and nanostructured materials, sensors and biomedical devices, spectroscopic characterisations of the physical processes in nanostructured thin films, structures and devices | Engineering | Professor Wang Xiaogang | Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering | Crowd behaviour analysis, object detection and tracking, person re-identification, face recognition, image and video searching, medical imaging | Materials Science | Professor Wong Ching-ping | Emeritus Professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering | Polymeric electronic materials, electronic, photonic and MEMS packaging and interconnect, interfacial adhesions, and nano-functional material syntheses and characterisations |
The full list of "Highly Cited Researchers 2025" can be found at: https://clarivate.com/highly-cited-researchers/. | 
Professor Heng Pheng-Ann, Department of Computer Science and Engineering 
Professor Martin Stolterfoht,Department of Electronic Engineering 
Professor Xu Jianbin, Department of Electronic Engineering 
Professor Zhao Ni,Department of Electronic Engineering 
Professor Wang Xiaogang, Department of Electronic Engineering 
Professor Wong Ching-ping, Department of Electronic Engineering |
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