The Department of Building Services Engineering (BSE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is pleased to announce that Prof. YANG Hongxing was named “Highly Cited Researchers 2017” by Clarivate Analytics. The list recognised leading researchers in sciences and social sciences whose academic papers indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection were ranked among the top 1% in terms of the total number of citations in their subject fields between 2005 and 2015. He is one of the four staff members from PolyU on the list in this year as shown at PolyU’s web site:
https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cpa/excel/en/201712/achievements/a3/index.html.
Prof. YANG is now leading the Renewable Energy Research Group (RERG) in the Department. His research interests cover a number of R&D topics in renewable energy applications and energy saving in buildings including solar cell materials, solar photovoltaic integration in buildings, wind power, hybrid solar-wind power, solar cooling and ground-coupled heat pump technologies. He has completed a number of research projects in recent years for local industry and government and he has received awards from local and world organizations. He has supervised 28 PhD students and 21 of them have graduated. He has over 300 academic papers and 6 professional books published including more than 160 SCI journal papers published. According to the ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2016, he is on the list of 150 world most-cited researchers with impactful research in the disciplines of Civil Engineering. He is serving the International Journal of Applied Energy as an Associate Editor and other international journals as editorial board member.
The Department would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Prof. YANG on this excellent achievement.
