Married to soil If soil is like a human being in behavior, the reverse can also be true. Prof Ng, who jokingly refers to himself as “married to soil”, keeps a punishing professional schedule that has seen him publish over SCI international journal articles and some conference papers, and author two reference books. He has also been invited to deliver about keynotes, state-of-the-art reports and special lectures over six continents. He is currently associate editor of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal chair of the Awards Committee of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE). He also chaired the organizing committee for GeGe international conference covering both geo-energy and geo-environment and held in December at HKUST. In addition to these activities, he is Associate Vice-President (Research and Graduate Studies) for HKUST overall, bringing his own successful experience of research funding and project leadership to strategic planning in University-wide research development and postgraduate education. With his own graduate students, Prof Ng seeks to guide them to achieve what they want to be and to see issues from an all-round perspective. It is an approach that appears to have served his students well. He has graduated PhD and MPhil students, with eight students being admitted to Cambridge for further studies, and others taking up academic positions overseas and in Hong Kong.
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