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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr Kelvin YEUNG
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Materials Science
City University of Hong KongKeynote Speech
Recent Development of Plasma Surface Technology in Biomedical MaterialsDr Kelvin WK YEUNG received his BSc (Hons) from City University of Hong Kong by 1998 and was then admitted to the HKU Faculty of Medicine for post-graduate study. He finished his MPhil and PhD by 2001 and 2005, respectively. In 2005 he joined the Department of Orthopaedic and Traumatology as Post-doctoral Research Fellow and also appointed as Honorary Assistant Professor, and then quickly promoted to Research Assistant Professor. After a year, he has been recruited by CityU as Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Materials Science to develop biomedical science research. Despite the departure of his full time position at HKU, he has been reappointed as Honorary Assistant Professor at the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of HKU and plays a significant role to continue the collaborative research projects.
Kelvin had received numbers of awards and scholarships from academic and social service. He was also trained at a famous overseas medical research centre for half year as he won a competitive overseas fellowship. A significant honor he received is the Young Scientist Award offered by Hong Kong Institution of Science. The total amount of grants and sponsors directly arising from his PhD project is about HK$17M and he has now secured about HK$4.6M from CityU and HK government in capacity of principal investigator for his research projects. Up to now, he has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal papers at the top-journals of the field, 70 international conference papers together with more than 10 full patents in various countries.
