18 CUHK scholars named Highly Cited Researchers
19 November 2025
Eighteen scholars from CUHK have been named to the prestigious 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list. This distinguished recognition underscores the far-reaching global impact of the academics’ pioneering contributions.
Published annually by Clarivate, the Highly Cited Researchers list spotlights scientists whose research publications are among the top 1% most-cited in their fields worldwide. Each researcher selected has authored multiple papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for their fields and publication year in the Web of Science over the past decade.
The Highly Cited Researchers of CUHK*
| Category | Researcher | Department and Faculty | Research Areas |
| Clinical Medicine | Professor Francis Chan Ka-Leung | Department of Medicine and Therapeutics (Medicine) | Anti-thrombotics and gastrointestinal bleeding, non-invasive colorectal cancer diagnosis, clinical applications of gut microbiome |
| Professor Stephen Chan Lam | Department of Clinical Oncology (Medicine) | Hepatobiliary-pancreatic and neuroendocrine cancers | |
| Professor Henry Chan Lik-yuen | Faculty of Medicine | Hepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, liver cancer | |
| Professor Tony Mok Shu-kam | Department of Clinical Oncology, (Medicine) | Lung cancer, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, biomarkers | |
| Professor Ng Siew-chien | Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, (Medicine) | Inflammatory bowel disease, gut microbiota, faecal microbiota transplantation, colorectal cancer | |
| Professor Grace Wong Lai-hung | Department of Medicine and Therapeutics (Medicine) | Chronic viral hepatitis B and C, hepatocellular carcinoma, non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis, idiopathic peptic ulcer, big data in medicine | |
| Professor Yu Jun | Department of Medicine and Therapeutics (Medicine) | Gut microbiome and bacteria-host interactions during cancer development, genomic and epigenomic alterations in gastrointestinal (GI) cancer, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver cancer in relation to the mechanisms and therapeutic targets, biomarkers for early detection and treatment of GI cancers | |
| Cross-field | Professor Paul Chan Kay-sheung | Department of Microbiology (Medicine) | Human papillomavirus (HPV), influenza and general clinical virology |
| Dr Olabisi Oluwabukola Coker | Department of Medicine and Therapeutics (Medicine) | Investigation of gut, gastric and oral microbiome-metabolite interactions to identify biomarkers and mechanisms in gastrointestinal diseases, particularly gastric and colorectal cancer | |
| Professor Heng Pheng-Ann | Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Engineering) | Artificial intelligence, medical imaging, visual computing, extended reality | |
| Professor David Hui Shu-cheong | Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, (Medicine) | Respiratory failure and sleep disordered breathing, management of emerging severe acute respiratory infections, safety of respiratory therapy and prevention of nosocomial infections in the post-SARS era, common airway diseases | |
| Professor Martin Stolterfoht | Department of Electronic Engineering (Engineering) | Perovskite and organic solar cells, perovskite-based tandem solar cells, optoelectronic devices, charge transport and recombination, ionic transport, device simulations, optoelectronic and spectroscopic thin film characterisation | |
| Professor Martin Wong Chi-sang | The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine | Cancer epidemiology and control, preventive medicine and screening, primary healthcare service | |
| Professor Xu Jianbin | Department of Electronic Engineering (Engineering) | Near-field and nanoscopic sensing and imaging, nanoelectronics/nanophotonics, thin film technology, physics and technology of organic semiconductor devices, oxide-based electronics, hybrid perovskite optoelectronics, 2D material electronics/ optoelectronics, advanced thermal management, AI4X | |
| Professor Zhao Ni | Department of Electronic Engineering (Engineering) | Optoelectronic, electronic and electrochemical devices based on organic and nanostructured materials, sensors and biomedical devices, spectroscopic characterisations of the physical processes in nanostructured thin films, structures and devices | |
| Engineering | Professor Wang Xiaogang | Department of Electronic Engineering (Engineering) | Crowd behaviour analysis, object detection and tracking, person re-identification, face recognition, image and video searching, medical imaging |
| Mathematics | Professor Jin Bangti | Department of Mathematics, (Science) | Numerical analysis, inverse problems, machine learning |
*Among the 18 CUHK scholars named Highly Cited Researchers 2025, one is a former PhD student and is not in the list above
