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Ping Sheng is a Professor Emeritus at HKUST. He is also an Associate of Clare Hall College in Cambridge University, UK since October 2023. He obtained his BSc in Physics from the California Institute of Technology, and PhD in Physics from Princeton University in 1971. After a stay at the Institute for Advanced Study, Ping joined RCA David Sarnoff Research Center in 1973. In 1979 he joined the Exxon Corporate Research Lab, where he served as the head of the theory group during 1982-86. In 1994 Ping joined the HKUST as a professor of physics and served as the head of the physics department from 1999 to 2008. He was a senior member of the Institute for Advanced Study at HKUST from 2022 to 2024.

Prof. Sheng is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Member of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials. He served as the Executive Editor of Solid State Communications, a Division Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters and a member of the editorial board of New Journal of Physics. He was awarded the Brillouin Medal by the International Phononics Society in 2013, the Rolf Landauer Medal by the ETOPIM Society in 2018, and the Bloch Prize in 2021. Prof. Sheng was elected a member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences in 2019.

Prof. Sheng has published more than 480 papers with a total of over 57,000 citations, with an h-index of 106 (by Google Scholar). He has presented over 350 keynote, plenary or invited talks at international meetings and conferences. His research interests include acoustic metamaterials, nanostructured carbon, giant electrorheological fluids, fluid-solid interfacial phenomena, and effective medium theory of composites. Prof. Sheng’s research has led to the founding of a successful startup company, the Acoustic Metamaterials Group.

Prof. Sheng now resides in Cambridge, UK with his wife.

Website of Prof Sheng at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

May 2025