Research Areas:
Transport Phenomena in Microsystems, Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer, Porous-Media Heat Transfer, Radiative Heat Transfer

Prof. Cheng Ping received his PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University in 1965. He joined University of Hawaii as Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1970 and served as Chairman of the department from 1989 to 1994. From 1995 to 2002, he was appointed the second Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Prof. Cheng is a world-renowned researcher in the field of heat transfer with great and far-reaching contributions. He has published more than 230 SCI journal papers in radiative heat transfer, porous-media heat transfer and microscale heat transfer, and was listed as one of the world’s “Highly Cited Researchers” by Thomson Reuters in 2014. He was elected Fellow of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 1986, and Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in 2004. As a testament to his professional achievements, Prof. Cheng has received numerous international top honors, including the 1996 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award and the 2006 ASME Heat Transfer Classic Paper Award for his research work in porous-media heat transfer, the 2003 AIAA Thermophysics Award for his research in radiative heat transfer, and the 2006 ASME/AIChE (The American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Max-Jakob Memorial Award, considered the highest international honor in the field of heat transfer. He was also the recipient of the 2006 Shanghai Science and Technology Award (First Class), and the 2007 State Natural Science Award (Second Class) for his research in microscale heat transfer. He was elected a member of Division of Technological Sciences in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2011.

Prof. Cheng is also very active in international heat transfer community, serving as an editor of Int. J. Heat & Mass Transfer, an editor of Int. Communications in Heat & Mass Transfer, and a member of editorial boards of 14 international heat transfer and energy journals. He will be chairing the 16th International Heat Transfer Conference in 2018, which will be held in China for the first time in its 67-year history.