Prof Richard So, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, has been elected to receive the prestigious title of the Fellow of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). IEA is the federation of ergonomics and human factors societies around the world. It was founded in 1961 and has celebrated her 50th anniversary in 2011.

The IEA Fellowship Award is given to recognize extraordinary, sustained, superior accomplishments of an individual who has outstanding theoretical or applied contributions to ergonomics/human factors at an international level. As of summer 2014, and in 53 years of history of IEA, only 96 outstanding academics and industrial leaders hold this prestigious title of IEA Fellow worldwide.

Prof So is the first IEA Fellow to be elected from Hong Kong. His research accomplishments in visually induced motion sickness and computational ergonomics have been recognized globally by academics from USA, UK, Netherlands, Australia, Japan, Singapore and China.