Professor of Practice

Dr Lee has been working in the railway industry for over 50 years covering rolling stock and infrastructure maintenance, design and construction of new railway lines and major asset upgrading/replacement projects, operations, business development, and consultancy services both in Hong Kong, Mainland China and overseas including UK, Sweden, India, Middle East, Thailand, Philippine, Singapore, and Australia. From 2013 to 2020 Dr Lee has been working on the first driverless metro line in Australia - Sydney Metro project and overseeing the successful commencement of first passenger service of the Northwest section in mid-2019, and the award of a trains, systems and O&M contract to Hong Kong MTR for the City and Southwest section of the project. 

Dr Lee and the research team in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University has pioneered in the application of Fiber Bragg Grating sensors for the continuous condition monitoring of mission critical components of the railway, and the migration of railway asset maintenance to the era of Maintenance 4.0.  Recently he has also started R&D works on the deployment of machine learning and other AI techniques to develop Smart Railway Linear Infrastructure and Smart Trains.  Early this year KK has joined the Roland Berger consultant team serving the Saudi Arabia Kingdom to investigate the technological readiness and the prospect of building pilot line for hyperloops in Saudi Arabia. Since 2020 Dr Lee has also been providing advisory support to the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) for the setting up of a workplace experience focused engineering degree program. 

Dr Lee is a Chartered Engineer(UK), Member of IET (UK) and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. Dr Lee possesses an Engineering Doctorate degree and a Master of Electrical Engineering degree awarded by HKPU, an M Sc degree in Physics awarded by Hong Kong Chinese University, and a B Sc degree in Applied Computing awarded by Hong Kong Metropolitan University. Dr Lee has also received training in railway engineering through attachment to the old British Rail in UK.