Academic Staff

Prof. Arthur Mak obtained his B.Sc. in Engineering Mechanics with highest honor from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and earned his Ph.D. in Biomechanics at Northwestern University in 1980. After a postdoctoral fellowship in Tissues Mechanics under Professor Van Mow at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he took up an Assistant Professorship in Bioengineering & Orthopedic Research at University of Pennsylvania. After completing his M.A. from Westminster Theological Seminary, Arthur joined the Jockey Club Rehabilitation Engineering Center at PolyU in 1988 and became Chair Professor in 1997. He later also served PolyU as Founding Head of Department of Health Technology & Informatics, Associate Vice President (Academic), and Founding Dean of Students. Arthur moved to CUHK in 2011 and led the Biomedical Engineering Programme there as its Director & Division Head. Upon his retirement from CUHK, he joined HKBU as Associate Vice President (Student Experience) in 2019. He rejoined PolyU in 2023 as Interim Director of the Institute for Higher Education Research and Development.

Prof. Mak has been very active professionally in biomedical and rehabilitation engineering, both locally and globally. He has served in the World Council on Biomechanics, International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics, the Asia-Pacific Working Group of International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, etc. He was President of the World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers, and is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.