Prof. Hong K. Lo is currently Dean of Engineering, Chair Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Founding Director of GREAT Smart Cities Institute. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from the Ohio State University in 1991. After working at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, Prof. Lo joined HKUST as Assistant Professor and rose through the ranks of Associate Professor, full Professor, and Chair Professor.

Prof. Lo is an accomplished scholar in intelligent transportation systems, smart cities, and sustainability. He developed the first-ever agent-based dynamic transportation model for Hong Kong, which has been adopted by the industry for network service planning. His research on signalized roundabouts has also been adopted for implementation. He has published extensively in the transportation literature and was selected as one of the Most Cited Researchers in Civil Engineering in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2016. Professor Lo is very active in the transportation community, for instance, elected as Convener of the International Scientific Committee of the conference series Advanced Systems for Public Transportation (CASPT), serves as Founding Editor-in-Chief of Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, Managing Editor of Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, and on the editorial boards of many international journals. Professor Lo was awarded the prestigious triennial World Conference on Transportation Research (WCTR) Prize and HKUST School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, among others. Prof Lo has been appointed as Justice of the Peace (JP) by the Hong Kong government and is a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Highway and Transportation (IHT), and Fellow of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies.