Prof. Wen J. LI has been with the Dept. of Mechanical and Automation Engineering since September 1997 and currently heads the Centre for Micro and Nano Systems at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).  He was educated at the University of Southern California (BSAE 87’; MSAE 89’) and the University of California, Los Angeles (PhD 97’). Before joining CUHK, he held R&D positions at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena), The Aerospace Corporation (El Segundo), and Silicon Microstructures Inc. (Fremont). His research group has published more than 200 technical papers related to MEMS and Nanotechnology and has won best conference/student paper awards from the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (IEEE-NANO 2003) and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (IEEE-ICRA 2003, IEEE/ASME AIM 2007, and IEEE-ROBIO 2007). His students have also won several IEEE local and regional paper contests, and their papers were selected as finalist papers for Best Conference/Studrent Paper contests from several IEEE conferences since 2000. He is recognized world-wide for his research contributions in CNT-based sensors and has been invited to give conference keynote and invited lectures world-wide. He has served/is serving as a guest editor for the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering, the IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, and the IEEE Sensors Journal on special topics related to MEMS and Nanotechnology. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, and the Managing Editor of the IEEE Review of Advances in Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems, and an associate editor of the Journal of Micro/Nano Mechatronics.

Dr. Li’s research has been continually funded by both basic and applied research agencies in Hong Kong and China, including the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Chinese National 863 Plan. Dr. Li has also been very active in serving the professional communities and commercial sectors. He was the Program Chair of IEEE-ROBIO 2004 and the General Chair of IEEE-ROBIO 2005, and was also the Organizing Chair of the 1st IEEE-NEMS (2006) and the General Chair of IEEE-NANO 2007. Currently, he is a member of the Administration Committee of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council, a Scientific Advisor to Virtus Advanced Sensors (USA), and a Distinguished Overseas Scholar of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is an affiliated professor at the Shenyang Institute of Automation and a guest professor at Peking University.  He has also co-founded two startup companies commercializing MEMS-based human motion sensing technologies at the Hong Kong Science Park (Sengital Ltd. and Virtus Asia Ltd.).

Wen J. Li is a member of the AAAS and ASME, and a senior member of the IEEE.

李文荣1987~1989年在USC(南加州大学)分别获得航空制造工程学士和硕士学位。1989~1997年先后在航空航天公司、硅微结构公司，和NASA/JPL实验室从事研究工作。1997年获UCLA（美国加州大学洛杉矶分校）微机电专业博士学位。在美国硅微结构公司工作期间曾获得技术革新奖。自1997以来，在国际期刊和会议上共发表了200多篇关于微机电系统和纳米技术方面的论文（几乎所有的论文都被EI/SCI检索）。主要从事微纳米结构技术与自动化操作技术的科研工作。在生物细胞夹持器研制，基于纳米管束的热传感器研制和通过因特网的微环境感知和探测等研究中取得了重要成果；获得2003年IEEE国际机器人和自动化会议优秀论文奖（2003，台湾）； 2003年IEEE纳米技术优秀论文奖（2000年8月，美国，三藩市）；2000年IS的优秀学术论文奖（2000年11月，日本）。1997年开始在香港中文大学机械与自动化工程系工作。现为香港中文大学机械与自动化工程系教授，香港中文大学微纳米系统中心主任。同时，担任IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine主编、Journal of Micro/Nano Mechatronics 副主编、IEEE纳米技术协会中纳米机器人与纳米制造委员会成员；2002年入选中国科学院的百人计划；中科院沈阳自动化所客座研究员。

研究领域：先进MEMS应用、面向微纳米结构的自动化操作技术研究和开发。主要方向：1）基于MEMS的人体运动传感技术；2）基于DNA/碳纳米管的传感器；3）微/纳米仿生技术。