Professor Yongping Zheng, Henry G. Leong Professor in Biomedical Engineering, is currently a Chair Professor of Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and he is also the Director of Research Institute for Smart Ageing and Director of Jockey Club Smart Ageing Hub. Professor Yongping Zheng received the BSc and MEng in Electronics and Information Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China. He received PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in 1997. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Windsor, Canada, he joined PolyU as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Professor in 2008 and Chair Professor in 2019 respectively. He was the Associate Director of the Research Institute of Innovative Products in PolyU from 2008 to 2010. He served as the Founding Head of Department of Biomedical Engineering during 2012-2020.
Prof. Zheng’s main research interests include biomedical ultrasound and smart aging technologies. Professor Zheng was rated as the top 2% citation scholar in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing in a survey conducted by Stanford University in 2021 and 2022. He has trained over 18 PhD and 8 MPhil graduates as Chief Supervisor, and over 10 postdoctoral fellows. He also owned more than 50 patent families (with a total patent number over 120), published 290 journal papers, and wrote two books “Measurement of Soft Tissue Elasticity In Vivo: Techniques and Applications” and “Sonomyography: Dynamic and Functional Assessment of Muscles, a number of technologies invented by his team have been successfully commercialized by startup companies that he co-founded, including Scolioscan (http://scolioscan.com): a 3D ultrasound imaging device to provide radiation-free assessment of scoliosis, and Liverscan (http://eieling.com): a wireless hand-held ultrasound device for liver fibrosis and fatty liver assessment. His inventions have won many international and local awards.
Professor Zheng is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), past Secretary of World Association of Chinese Biomedical Engineers (2017-2019), past Chair of Biomedical Engineering Division of HKIE,and Honorary Advisors of Hong Kong Federation of Senior Citizen Industries and Hong Kong Medical and Healthcare Device Industry Association. He also serves as the President of Guangdong Hong Kong Macau Chapter of the International Society of Gerontechnology. He has served as Associate Editor and Editorial Board Members for some leading journals in the field.