Members

Associate Head (Research) and Professor, Director of PolyU-Qianhai Technology and Innovation Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Prof. Minchen Wei is the Director of Color, Imaging and Metaverse Research Center, the recipient of China's Excellent Young Scientists Fund. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Fudan University in 2009. In Aug 2011 and Dec 2015, he earned his Master of Science and PhD degrees in Architectural Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He joined PolyU in Oct 2015 as an Assistant Professor. His research mainly focuses on fundamental color science, color management and application for imaging and metaverse systems (e.g., display, camera, AR/VR/MR), and illuminating engineering. His work has been supported by the Research Grant Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Hong Kong Policy Innovation and Coordination Office, and Hong Kong SAR Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD), and various industry partners (i.e., Facebook, Google, Huawei, DJI, WSP, OPPO, OPPLE Lighting, etc). Dr Wei is currently the Vice President of CIE, Chairman of CIE (HK), and national representative in CIE Divisions 1 and 8. He is also an Associate Editor of Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Color Research & Application, and LEUKOS (Journal of Illuminating Engineering Society). He received a Google Research Scholar Award in 2021, and PolyU Young Innovative Researcher Award, and PolyU President's Award for Outstanding Knowledge Transfer in 2022, Hong Kong Engineering Science Award in 2023, SID Young Leadership Award and Distinguished Paper Award in 2024.