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CV of Ir Professor C.W. Lim (BEng, MEng, PhD, FASME, FASCE, F.EMI, FHKIE, FISEAM, RPE)

July 84 – May 89: Bachelor of Engineering in Mech. Eng. (Aero), University of Technology (UTM), Malaysia.
July 89 – Oct. 91: Master of Engineering in Mech. Eng., National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Nov. 91 – Oct. 94: Doctor of Philosophy in Mech. Eng., Nanyang Technological University Singapore.

Mar. 2006 – Mar. 2008 Guest Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China (top 10 China)
Sept 2010 – Present:     Guest Professor, Dalian University of Technology, P.R. China
Oct 2010 – Present:      Adjunct Visitor, Zhejiang University, P.R. China (top 5 in China)
July 2011 – Dec 2011: Visiting Associate Professor, National University of Singapore
2013:                          Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (FASCE)
2014:                          Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (FASME)

1989 – 1991:                Res. Ass., Dept. of Mech. and Prod. Eng., National University of Singapore.
1991 – 1994:                Res. Ass., Teaching Assistant, Sch. of Mech. and Prod. Eng., Nanyang Tech. Univ., S’pore.
1995 – 1997:                Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Civil Eng., The University of Queensland, Australia.
1998 – 2000:                Research Fellow, Dept. of Mech. Eng., The University of Hong Kong.
2000 – 2003:                Assistant Professor, Dept. of Building and Construction, City University of Hong Kong.
2003 – June 2013:        Associate Professor, Dept. of Building and Construction/Dept. of Civil and Architectural Eng, City Univ of HK.
July 2013 -- Present:     Professor, Dept. of Civil and Architectural Engineering, City University of Hong Kong.

(i) 2000 – present, conducted 15 new courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels;
(ii) 2002 – present, Programme Leader for Bachelor of Engineering in Building Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management);
(iii) nominated for the Teaching Excellence Award in 2001/02 and 2003/04 (one of eight finalists) and 2005/06;
(iv) member of Teaching Support Group since 2003;
(v) Chair (2001), Vice Chair (2000, 2002, 2003), Education Committee, ASME HK Section;
(vi) Judges Panel member, essay competition (2001), best final year project competition (2001), ASME HK Section and HKIE MMNC Division;
(vii) Judging Panel Chairman for Student Session, 06SPAWDA, Dec 2006, Hangzhou, P.R. China, and
(viii) key organizing committee member for BASIC 2002/2003/2004/2005.
(ix) 2014 – Present, External Program Moderator, Faculty of Eng. and Tech., Multimedia University, Malaysia.

(1) 1985 – 1989: Public Service Commission Scholarship, Malaysia govert.;
(2) 1989: Best Acad. Performance Medal in Mech. Eng. (Aero), Univ. of Tech. of Malaysia;
(3) 1996 – 1997: Univ. of Queensland Postdoc. Research Fellowship;
(4) 1998 – 2000: Univ. of Hong Kong Research Fellowship;
(5) 2007: PhD student (S.K. Lai) was awarded the awarded the Chung Hwa Travel Service Scholarship (only 2 recipients from CityU, HK$25,000).
(6) 2008: Excellent Paper Award, Fourth Jiangsu-Hong Kong Forum on Mechanics and Its Application, Jiangsu Society of Mechanics, 16-17 May 2008, Suzhou, P.R. China;
(7) PhD student (S.K. Lai) was awarded the Second Runner-up for Meyer Poon Memorial Award (2007) for his PhD research;
(8) 2009: I. J. of Solids and Structures 2004 to 2008 Most Cited Articles Award for: A continuum model for size-dependent deformation of elastic films of nano-scale thickness, IJSS, 41(3-4), 847-857, 2004.
(9) Top Referees in 2009, Proceedings A, The Royal Society;
(10) 2011: Council of Canadian Academies (EKOS) as “an author of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers in your field worldwide (2011)”;
(11) PhD student (Q. Yang) was awarded the Second Runner-up for Meyer Poon Memorial Award (2012) for her PhD research and PhD student (Y.M. Yu) was awarded the First Runner-up for Meyer Poon Memorial Award (2012) for his PhD research.
(12) 2013: Outstanding Reviewer, ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering.
(13) 2014: Outstanding Author, Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition).
(14) PhD student (L.H. Tong), Awarded Peter Ho Conference Scholarship from CityU, 2013-14; First-Class Zhongda Construction Scholarship, 2013; awarded by Zhongda Construction Group Co., Ltd, RMB$5,000; Postgraduate National Scholarship 2014, awarded by Chinese Ministry of Education, RMB$30,000.

(1) Associate Mem. (1998-99), Mem. (1999–present), Acoustical Society of America (ASA);
(2) Mem. (1998–2014), Fellow (2014-Present, less than 3% of ASCE memberships), Ame Soc of Mechanical Engineers (ASME);
(3) Mem. (1999–2013), Fellow, (2013– present, top 4% of ASCE memberships), Ame Soc of Civil Engineers (ASCE);
(4) Mem. (2000–present), Structural Eng. Institute of ASCE;
(5) Fellow (2000– present) and Patron (2001– present), Int. Biographical Assoc., Cambridge, U.K;
(6) Founder Mem. (2000– present), The Vibration Institute of India;
(7) Mem. (2003–2017), Fellow (2017– present), The HK Institution of Engineers (HKIE);
(8) Founder Mem. (2006– present), HK Assoc. for Computational Mechanics (HKACM);
(9) Registered Professional Engineer (RPE), Hong Kong SAR (2006– present)

2001 – 2002:              Editorial Board Member, Advances in Vibration Engineering.
2002 – Present:          Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Region, Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies (2002-2013: Advances in Vibration Engineering), SCI listed journal since January 2009. ISSN 0972-5768 (SCI-listed).
Jan 2010 – Dec 2017: Guest Assoc Editor (2010-12), Assoc Editor (2012-17), Int Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (SCI-listed).
Dec 2011 – Present:   Editor-in-Chief, Modern Mechanical Engineering.
July 2013 – Present    International Subject Editor, Applied Mathematical Modelling (AMM), Elsevier (SCI-listed).
April 2014 – Present Associate Editor, Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (AAMM), Global Science Press.
Jan 2015 – Present:    Associate Editorial, Journal of Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Science (JAMES), DJ Publications
May 2015 – Present: Editor, Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures (JoMMS), Mathe Sciences Publishers (SCI-listed).
Jan 2017                    Guest Editor, J. Nanomaterials, Special Issue: “Non-Local Modeling of Carbon Nanotubes for NEMS Tech”

2006 – Present:          Editorial Board Member, Recent Patents on Engineering, Bentham Science Publishers.
Feb 2007 – Present:    Editorial Board Member, The Open Nanoscience Journal, Bentham Science Publishers.
Apr 2007 – Present:   Editorial Board Member, The Open Mechanical Engineering Journal, Bentham Science Publishers.
2008 – Present:          Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Mathematics and Computation, CESER Publications.
Oct 2008 – Present:    Editorial Board Member, The Open Numerical Methods Journal, Bentham Science Publishers.
Jan 2009 – Present:    Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Akdeniz University.
2010 – 2014:              Editorial Board Member, ISRN Mechanical Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
Feb 2012 – Dec 2015 Editorial Board Member, Int. J of Modern Nonlinear Theory and Application, Scientific Res Pub, Inc., USA
Nov 2012 – Oct 2015 Editorial Board Member, Proc of the ICE - Engineering and Computational Mechanics, United Kingdom.
Jan 2013 – Dec 2016 Editorial Board Member, Int Journal of Dynamics and Control, Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland.
Feb 2013 – Present    Editorial Board Member, IES Journal Part A: Civil and Structural Engineering, Taylor & Francis.
April 2013 – Present Editorial Board Member, Scientific J. of Mechanic Engineering, American V-King Scientific Publishing, Ltd.
May 2013 – Present   Editorial Board Member, Int J of Mechanic Systems Eng (IJMSE), American V-King Scientific Publishing.
April 2014 – Present Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Advanced Applied Physics Research.
May 2014 – April 2017 Editorial Board Member, Engineering Structures.
2014 – Present:          Editorial Board Member, International Scholarly Research Notices, Hindawi Publishing Corporation.

2011:    International Conference on Multi Body Dynamics 2011, February 2011, Vijayawada, India.
2011:    Symposium on Vibrations of Continuous Systems (8th ISVCS), July 2011, Canada.
2012:    Symposium on Dynamical Systems and Vibration 2010 (SDSV 2012), December 2012, Hong Kong/Macau.
2013:    Int. Conf. on Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery (VETOMAC IX), 2013, Nanjing, P.R. China.
2016:    First Int. Conf. on Civil Eng. and Materials Science (ICCEMS 2016), 1-3 May 2016, Singapore. (Plenary and Conf. Chair)
2016:    Int. Conf. on Structural and Civil Engineering (ICSCE 2016), 9-11 Sept. 2016, Hong Kong. (Plenary and Conf. Chair)

Book reviews for John Wiley & Sons, Kluwer Academic Publishers and paper reviews for more than 200 research papers in more than 100 international journals since 1996.

Principal investigator for 34 projects totaling more than HK$11M; participated in another 15 projects.

Key projects
(i) 1999-present: a number of General Research Fund grants;
(ii) 2013-2016: Nat Science Foundation China (RMB$0.9M, the highest award to CityU in 2012);
(iii) 2018-2020: Fundamental Research Project, Shenzhen Sci and Tech Innovation Commission, P.R. China (深圳市知识创新计划基础研究项目), RMB 3mil.

Environment Consultant for Green Tech. Consultants Limited, Hong Kong. Approximately 18 consultancy projects have been completed since May 2000. Clients include Canton-Kowloon Railway Corporation (major railway company in HK), China Light Power (major power supply company in Hong Kong), Highway Dept. of HK Government, Water Supplies Dept. of HK Government.

April 2016 Xinsheng Xu, Cheng Li, C.W. Lim, Weifang Hong, Jiabin Sun and Zhenhuan Zhou; A Class of Thin-Walled Energy Absorption Tubes with Surface Local Nanotechnology Treatment, Dalian University of Technology
17 July 2015 Zhenhuan Zhou, Chenghui Xu, Wang Xu, Yiwen Ni, Xinsheng Xu, Jiabin Sun and C.W. Lim, A Hamiltonian Finite Element Analysis Software for Two-Dimensional Plane Fracture Problems.

Two books, 250 refereed journal papers since 1993; 11 tech. notes; 1 book chapter; 159 conf. papers (3 Plenary, 8 keynotes, 17 invited)

One of the books and ten most significant publications are (Citations extracted from Google Scholar):

Book: W.A. Yao, W.X. Zhong and C.W. Lim, Symplectic Elasticity, World Scientific, Singapore, 2009 (Bestselling title in Eng. Mechanics as in April 201; 2011 catalogue for Civil Engineering; 2012 catalogue for Mechanical Engineering)

1.      CW Lim, LH He, Exact solution of a compositionally graded piezoelectric layer …, I. J. Mech. Sci., 43(11), 2479-2492, 2001.
2.      CW Lim, BS Wu, A new analytical approach to the Duffing-harmonic oscillator, Phy.Let. A, 311, 365-373, 2003.
3.      C.W. Lim and L.H. He, Size-dependent nonlinear response of thin elastic films …, I. J. Mech. Sci., 46(11), 1715-1726, 2004.
4.      L.H. He, C.W. Lim and B.S. Wu, A continuum …, I.J. Solids Struct.,41,847-857,2004.(2004-2008 Most Cited Articles Award)
5.      CW Lim, ZR Li, LH He, Size dependent, nonuniform elastic field inside …, I. J. Solids Struct., 43(17), 5055-5065, 2006.
6.      C.W. Lim and C.M. Wang, Exact variational nonlocal stress modelling with …, J. Appl. Physics, 101(5), 054312, 2007.
7.      CW Lim, XS Xu, Symplectic elasticity: Theory and applications, ASME Appl. Mech. Rev., 63(5), 050802, 2010.
8.      CW Lim, Q Yang, JB Zhang, Thermal buckling of nanorod based on non-local …, IJ Non-Linear Mech., 47(5) 496-505, 2012.
9.      CW Lim, LH Tong, YC Li, Theory and applications of suspended carbon nanotube …, J. Sound Vib., 332(21), 5451-5461, 2013.
10.   CW Lim, G Zhang, JN Reddy, A higher-order nonlocal elasticity and strain gradient …, J Mech Phys. Solids, 78, 298-313, 2015.

More than 4450 self-excluded independent citations in more than 3000 independent publications since 1993, ISI H-index 36.

	All	Since 2012
Citations	7397	4239
H-index	46	34
i10-index	171	126