Title: Fire Research: Past, Present and Future

Speaker: Prof. Wanki Chow

From: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Date: Dec. 23, 2010

CV of the Speaker: Professor Chow is the Chair Professor of Architectural Science and Fire Engineering, appointed as the Head of Department, Department of Building Services Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a first class honours BSc degree in 1977; and from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. with a MSc degree in teaching in 1979. He obtained his PhD degree in Computing Physics from the University of Hong Kong in 1983. Professor Chow joined the Department of Building and Surveying/Building Services Engineering, of the then Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1981, as an assistant lecturer.