Prof. Charles Ng received his PhD from University of Bristol, UK. Subsequently, he joined the University of Cambridge as a Research Associate before returning HK in 1995. He is currently Chair Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility at HKUST. He was elected Changjiang Scholar (Chair Professor) by the Ministry of Education in China. He is also the first Hong Kong academic appointed as one of the 12 Board Members of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. Prof. Ng was elected as an Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), the American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE), the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE) and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (FHKEng).

Prof. Ng specializes in geotechnical engineering including advanced unsaturated soil mechanics, centrifuge and numerical modeling of geotechnical problems including slopes instability, excavations, piles and tunnels. He has received various awards from different institutions and societies worldwide including the Miller Prize from the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), the Henry Adams Award from the Institution of Structural Engineers (UK), the first Tan Swan Beng Award from the Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society, the Mao Yisheng Youth Award from the Chinese Institute of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and the R M Quigley Award (twice) from the Canadian Geotechnical Society. He has served on editorial boards of Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Journal of Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers in US, and Geotechnical Engineering, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers in UK.