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Derek Or has a good mix of academic and industrial experience. Having received his bachelor’s, master’s (Teaching Company Scheme), and doctoral (part-time mode) education at PolyU from 1992 to 2001, he acquired industrial experience in the R&D Department of ASM Pacific Technology Ltd. in both Hong Kong and Singapore from 1995 to 2001 and performed his postdoctoral work in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2001 to 2002. He started his academic career as Lecturer in the Department of Applied Physics (AP) at PolyU in 2002, became Assistant Professor in AP in 2005, advanced to Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) in 2008, and achieved the rank of Professor in EE in 2012.
Derek started the Smart Materials and Systems Laboratory in 2008, and took up the leaderships of “Electricity Utilization, Condition Monitoring and Asset Management” Research Area in 2009, High Voltage Engineering Laboratory in 2009, and Electrical Engineering Laboratory in 2013. He has also held the positions of Adjunct Professor of Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2008, Adjunct Professor of Zhejiang University since 2009, Chief Science and Technology Advisor of the Zhucheng Municipal People’s Government, Shandong Providence since 2012, Council Vice Chair and Advisory Court Chair of the Zhucheng Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park since 2013, Visiting Professor of UCLA since 2013, and Invited International Collaborator of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems, USA since 2013.
Derek has over 18 years of continued research experience with an outstanding record of research performance in the three aspects of basic research, applied research, and industrial research. He has secured 41 research grants totaling ~HK$42M (30 research grants totaling ~HK$22M as PI) from government agencies, industries, and PolyU since 2002. He has produced over 240 research publications, including 2 professional book chapters, 1 monograph, 41 patents for 16 inventions, 140 SCI journal papers, and 60 international conference papers, since 1996. He holds an h-index of 22 and was ranked No. 1 (27 papers), No. 6 (34 papers), and No. 29 (45 papers) in ISI Web of Knowledge in terms of the number of SCI journal papers published in the “magnetostrictive”, “magnetoelectric”, and “piezoelectric” topics from 2007 to 2011. He is recipient of 20 research-related awards and honors, including Gold Awards in the 37th and 39th International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and New Products of Geneva, Switzerland in 2009 and 2011, Bronze Awards in the 58th and 60th International Ideas, Inventions and Innovations Trade Fair, Germany in 2006 and 2008, the President’s Award for Excellent Performance and Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities at PolyU in 2006, Silver Medals for two inventions in the 15th China Exhibition of Inventions in 2005, Gold Award in the Seoul International Invention Fair, Korea in 2002, etc. He has also served as Associate Editors of 3 SCI journals, Reviewer for research grants, academic appointments/promotions and SCI journals, and Chair/Member of various professional bodies, examination boards and international conferences.