ICITE2026 Keynote Speakers
Prof. Hai Yang | 杨海教授
Chair Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong | 香港科技大学
Professor Hai Yang is currently a Chair Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and is an internationally renowned scholar in the field of transportation research. His work has been extensively published in top-tier academic journals such as Transportation Research, Transportation Science, Operations Research, and PNAS, placing his academic influence among the global forefront in the transportation field. Professor Yang has received numerous prestigious awards, including the HKUST School of Engineering Distinguished Research Excellence Award (2025), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2021 Francis C. Turner Award, the 2020 Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award, and the 2011 State Natural Science Award presented by the State Council of China. He has been appointed as a "Changjiang Scholar" Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education of China and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the flagship journal Transportation Research Part B: Methodological from 2013 to 2018. He currently holds the position of Honorary Editorial Board Member for the journal and serves on the Scientific Committee of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. Additionally, Professor Yang is an Advisory Editor for Transportation Science and a Co-Editor-in-Chief of AI for Transportation.
Prof. Lixi Huang | 黄立锡教授
Deputy Head of Department of Mechanical EngineeringThe University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong | 香港大学
Lixi was educated at Beijing Institute of Aeronautics (now BUAA or Beihang Univ.) and University of Cambridge. His BEng and MPhil degrees from BUAA were in the field of aerospace engineering (jet propulsion), while the topic of his PhD study at Cambridge was theoretical acoustics and respiratory biomechanics. He spent 8 years each in Beijing and Cambridge before coming to Hong Kong in 1996. After completing his PhD work in 1991, he worked as a research associate at the Whittle Lab (of turbomachinery), then as a college research fellow at Peterhouse, both within the University of Cambridge. His work on the mechanism of human snoring helped his medical/surgical colleagues devise a successful laser surgery procedure in the early 1990s, and the related pursuit in fluid mechanics touched upon the fundamentals of fluid-structure energy transfer mechanisms. Before joining the University of Hong Kong in 2006, he taught at HK PolyU Mechanical Engineering and served as a leader for the teaching group of acoustics and vibration. In the last decade or so he has been working in industrial and environmental noise control with a special focus on the use of electromagnetic forces in acoustics. His research projects have been funded by the Hong Kong Government funding agencies (RGC, ITF), industry, and mainland sources (“973” projects, and Department of Science and Technology, Zhejiang Province, PRC).
His current research interests are (a) aerodynamics and acoustics with application to aeronautical and general engineering, (b) innovative broadband noise control with applications to environmental noise, and (c) flow induced vibration and interaction with sound.
He currently serves as a subject editor for Journal of Sound and Vibration, an associate editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and an editorial board member for Chinese Journal of Acoustics.