Prof Wen Jung Li

Professor Wen Jung Li is Vice-President (Talent and International Strategy) and Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong, where he leads global faculty recruitment, talent development, and international strategic partnerships. He previously served as Associate Provost from 2018 to 2023, overseeing major institutional initiatives and resource planning. Trained in aerospace engineering at USC and UCLA, he has held research positions at The Aerospace Corporation and NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. An internationally recognized scholar in micro/nanotechnology, AI-enabled sensing, and embodied-intelligence robotics, he holds more than 25 patents and has co-founded several technology start-ups. He is an International Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Member of the European Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, an ASME Fellow, a Distinguished Overseas Scholar of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a former president of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council.