报告人简介：

     Professor Joseph Hun-wei Lee, a Hong Kong native, obtained his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA (1969-1977). He taught at the University of Delaware as Assistant Professor for three years before he joined the University of Hong Kong in 1980. He has served as Dean of Engineering from 2000 to 2003 and is currently Pro-Vice Chancellor and Vice-President, and Redmond Chair of Civil Engineering. He is also the Director of the Croucher Laboratory of Environmental Hydraulics. 

Professor Lee's research revolves around the use of hydraulics to solve environmental problems, in particular the prediction and control of water quality. He is Chief Editor of the Elsevier Journal of Hydro-environment Research, and an Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, Korea Journal of Civil Engineering, and China Ocean Engineering. A former Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (1992) and Croucher Senior Research Fellow (1998), Professor Lee is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is Vice-President of the International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR) and past Chairman of the IAHR-APD Division. He is the recipient of the 2009 Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 

Over the past two decades, he has served as expert advisor to the Hong Kong Government and as international consultant on many hydro-environmental projects including the Sydney Ocean Outfall Post-operation Monitoring Study, Hong Kong Harbour Area Treatment Scheme (HATS), Yuen Long Bypass Floodway, Deep Bay Water Quality Regional Control Strategy Study, Hong Kong Island West Drainage Tunnel Vortex Intake Study, and the Tai Hang Tung Storage Scheme that won the Innovation Award for Construction Industry of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (2002). He serves on the Advisory Council on the Environment of the Hong Kong Government, and is a member of the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).