Kevin Cheung

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Personal Information

Personal Information

  • E-Mail:

    100120@nuist.edu.cn
  • Date of Employment:

    2023-09-25
  • School/Department:

    School of Emergency Management
  • Administrative Position:

    Professor
  • Education Level:

    With Certificate of Graduation for Doctorate Study
  • Business Address:

    学科2号楼C217
  • Gender:

    Male
  • Contact Information:

    kevin.cheung@nuist.edu.cn
  • Degree:

    Doctoral Degree in Philosophy
  • Professional Title:

    Professor
  • Status:

    在岗
  • Alma Mater:

    City University of Hong Kong
  • Teacher College:

    School of Emergency Management

Profile

Welcome to my homepage!


Prof. Kevin Cheung joined the School of Emergency Management, NUIST in September 2023 after spending about fifteen years teaching in Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, as a Principal Scientist in the Australian NSW Government (Climate and Atmospheric Science) as well as independent scientific consulting work.


Kevin’s educational background was in physics, with a B. Sc. (Hons.) from the University of Hong Kong (1989) and a Master of Philosophy from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1992). He then turned to atmospheric sciences and finished a Ph.D. dissertation on tropical cyclone forecasting at the City University of Hong Kong in 1999. With support from the Croucher Foundation, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Meteorology Department of the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California for two years and then promoted to research assistant professor. In 2004 he joined his family in Taiwan and served the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction as an associate research fellow, while extending his experience to operational mitigation work. 


Please also browse my page on Research Field@Scientific Research, and my Google Scholar and Researchgate.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=Ow9qFlsAAAAJ&hl=en

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Cheung-17


I am recruiting postgraduate (master and PhD) students. Do you have interest in the following research directions? If yes, come and have a discussion with me.

    ★ Tropical cyclones and climate change, from their formation and energetics perspectives

     Tropical cyclone remote rainfall and multiple tropical cyclones development

     Is rainfall really increasing under climate change? Perpectives of small-scale variability and/or large-scale rain clusters characteristics

     Extreme events, such as monsoon rainfall, drought, typhoon. Do they have connections to remote drivers?

     New and holistic approach to natural hazards risk assessment and analysis of emergency response


My international collaborators include researchers in Australia, Germany and the U.S. Funding will be seeked to support my postgraduate students to do exchanges and pay visits to these partners.


Recent publications (* corresponding author):

Hu, C., C.-Y. Tam, Z. Li, J. Chen, T. N. Chow, Y. Li, K. K. W. Cheung, J.-E. Chu, and Z.-L. Yang, 2024: Impacts of urban heat and surface roughness on landfalling tropical cyclone intensity: A case study based on TC Victor (1997) in coastal south China. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos.(in press).

Čavlina Tomašević, I., B. Malečić, V. Vučetić, M. T. Prtenjak, K. K. W. Cheung, P. Fox-Hughes, and P. J. Beggs, 2024: Coupled fire-atmosphere simulations of the Split, Croatia wildfire. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., doi:/10.1175/JAMC-D-23-0168.1.

Fang, Z., K. K. W. Cheung*, and Y. Yang, 2024: Contribution from the western Pacific subtropical high index to a deep-learning typhoon rainfall forecast model. Remote Sensingdoi:/10.3390/rs16122207.

Li, Y., Y. Jiang, J. C. L. Chan, and K. K. W. Cheung*, 2024: Development of asymmetric convection in tropical cyclone under environmental uniform flow and vertical wind shear. Adv. Atmos. Sci., doi:/10.1007/S00376-024-3344-2.

Hu, C., C.-Y. Tam, C. L. Loi, K. K. W. Cheung, Y. Li, Z.-L. Yang, Y. M. Au-Yeung, C. Ren, and D. Niyogi, 2023: Urbanization impacts on tropical cyclone rainfall extremes – inferences from observations and convection-permitting model experiments over the South China. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., doi:/10.1029/2023JD038813.

Čavlina Tomašević, I., V. Vučetić, K. K. W. Cheung, P. Fox-Hughes, P. J. Beggs, M. T. Prtenjak, and B. Malečić, 2023: Comparison of meteorological drivers of two large coastal slope-land wildfire events in Croatia and south-east Australia. Atmosphere, 14, doi:/10.3390/ATMOS14071076.

Cheung*, K. K. W., F. Ji, N. Nishant, N. Herold, K. Cook, 2023: Evaluation of convective environments in the NARCliM regional climate modeling system for Australia. Atmosphere, doi:/10.3390/atmos14040690.



Educational Experience

  • City University of Hong Kong | Atmospheric Sciences | Doctor of Philosophy | Postgraduate (Doctoral)

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Physics | Master of Philosophy | Postgraduate (Master's Degree)

  • The University of Hong Kong | Physics | Bachelor of Science (Honours) | Undergraduate (Bachelor’s degree)

Work Experience

  • E3-Complexity Consulting, Sydney, Australia | Director

  • NSW Department of Planning and Environment, Australia | Climate and Atmospheric Science | Principal Scientist

  • Macquarie University, Australia | Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Senior Lecturer

  • Taiwan Center for Disaster Reduction | Meteorological Hazards Group | Associate Research Fellow

  • US Naval Postgraduate School | Meteorology Department | Research Assistant Professor

  • US Naval Postgraduate School | Meteorology Department | Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Focus

  • [1] Meteorological hazardous weather systems; Mesoscale meteorology; Marine meteorology and climate

  • [2] Climate change impacts to weather systems such as tropical cyclones, extreme precipitation, thunderstorms and hails

  • [3] Applications of artificial intelligence / deep learning techniques to forecasts of extreme weather systems and risk assessment

  • [4] Nonlinear climate dynamics: Development of climate networks and other data-driven techniques

  • [5] Critical phenomenon and stochastic models of clouds and rain

  • [6] Nonlinear time series analysis in climate and weather

Social Affiliations

  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Environmental Science (Interdisciplinary Climate Studies Section)

  • Associated Editor, Frontiers in Earth Science (Atmospheric Science Section)

  • Associate Editor, Scientific Online Letters for the Atmosphere (SOLA), Meteorological Society of Japan

  • Associate of Risk Frontiers, a natural hazards research and development company in Sydney, Australia

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