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Four other scholars joined the Department of Land Surveying<br />

and Geo-Informatics in September 2012. Following are their<br />

profiles:<br />

Dr Wong Man Sing, Charles<br />

On 20 August 2012, the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-<br />

Informatics (LSGI) welcomed Dr Wong Man Sing, Charles, as an<br />

Assistant Professor, who received his PhD in Remote Sensing<br />

and GIS in 2009, MPhil in Remote Sensing and GIS in 2005, and<br />

BSc in Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics in 2003, all from<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> <strong>Polytechnic</strong> University. Not only did Dr Wong<br />

achieve the highest academic qualification from LSGI, he also<br />

established a strong connection in research areas.<br />

In 2005, Dr Wong joined LSGI as a part-time research fellow<br />

and stepped up to a Senior Research Fellow in 2011. He was a<br />

Fulbright scholar at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary<br />

Center of the University of Maryland in College Park from 2006<br />

to 2007. Currently he is the official site manager for two AERNET<br />

stations in <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong>.<br />

He has various research project experiences, including the<br />

use of remote sensing to study urban heat island effect, urban<br />

environmental quality, landslides, vegetation and ecosystems,<br />

spectral mixture analysis, aerosol retrieval and air quality<br />

monitoring. Moreover, he has published over 30 scientific<br />

papers, 2 book chapters, and over 50 conference papers in the<br />

last 7 years.<br />

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With his fabulous knowledge in remote sensing, his teaching<br />

will focus on this area.<br />

Ir Dr Wai Lok Lai, Wallace (Assistant Prof.)<br />

Ir Dr Lai obtained his PhD in 2006 and his BSc in 1999, both in<br />

Building Technology and Management from the Department of<br />

Building and Real Estate (BRE) of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> <strong>Polytechnic</strong><br />

University.<br />

Following his graduation, Dr Lai worked for a major contractor<br />

and an engineering consultant for six years. He then served as<br />

a Project and Research Fellow in the Department of Civil and<br />

Structural Engineering (CSE) of <strong>The</strong> <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> <strong>Polytechnic</strong><br />

University, and later as the Adolf Martens Postdoctoral Fellow<br />

at the Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing<br />

(BAM), Berlin, Germany. He is now a Visiting Scientist at BAM,<br />

a corporate member in the Materials Division of the <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong><br />

Institute of Engineers (HKIE), and is a Technical Assessor for<br />

the <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> Laboratory Accreditation Scheme (HOKLAS)<br />

administered by the <strong>Hong</strong> <strong>Kong</strong> Government.<br />

Seeing the unseen is truly Dr Lai's cup of tea. His research<br />

interests include condition survey and diagnosis of engineering<br />

structures, underground utilities, construction materials, hydrogeophysics,<br />

and sites of archaeological value, via nondestructive<br />

evaluation (NDE), near-surface geophysical techniques and<br />

advanced signal processing. <strong>The</strong>se techniques include ground<br />

penetrating radar, infrared thermography, electrical resistivity,<br />

etc. His main teaching duties will be with the Department's<br />

innovative and world-leading Utility Surveying stream of the B.Sc.<br />

(Hons) in Geomatics programme.<br />

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