• Chair Professor of Ultra-precision Machining and Metrology, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, PolyU
  • Director, State Key Laboratory of Ultra-precision Machining Technology ( PolyU)
  • Associate Director, Research Centre of SHARP Vision, PolyU
  • AET Fellow
  • Board member of ASPEN

Ir. Prof. CHEUNG Chi Fai, Benny is Chair Professor of Ultra-precision Machining and Metrology at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also the Director of State Key Laboratory of Ultra-precision Machining Technology (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University). He possesses more than 26 years working experience in innovation and technology research in the fields of precision engineering, ultra-precision machining, precision metrology and smart precision manufacturing. Prof. Cheung is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a member of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (MHKIE), The Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET), a Fellow of the International Academy of Engineering and Technology (AET Fellow) and a Board Membership of the Asian Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (ASPEN). He has received many research prizes and awards including ASAIHI-SCOPUS Young Scientist Award 2008-First Runner-up of Engineering and Technology, Technology Progress Award(Second Class) from the Ministry of Education in the PRC in 2009, Natural Science Award(Second Class) from the Ministry of Education in the PRC in 2010 and 2011, Joseph Whitworth Prize 2010 and A M Strickland Prize 2017 from The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), UK, Winner of the IET Innovation Award 2017–Manufacturing Technology from The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, Scientific and Technological Progress Award (Second Class), Guangdong Province Science and Technology Award in 2020, etc.