Built Environment & Energy Laboratory
Principal Investigator
Chun Chen (陳淳)
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2015
M. Eng., Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2012
B. Eng., Building Science, Tsinghua University, 2009
Email: chunchen@mae.cuhk.edu.hk
News
Jun 19, 2026: Prof. Chun Chen and Dr. Can Xiao attended the Indoor Air 2026 conference in Singapore from June 14 to 19, 2026. Can presented her poster.
Jun 07, 2026: Our paper "Bian, Y., Zhang, L.*, Chen, C.* (2018). Experimental and modeling study of pressure drop across electrospun nanofiber air filters. Building and Environment, 142, 244–251." has been cited for 100 times in Google Scholar.
Jun 02, 2026: Prof. Chun Chen visited Prof. Jeff Siegel's group at University of Toronto from Jun 01 - 04. We co-organized the 2nd workshop about "Opportunities in Air Filtration for the Control of Infectious Diseases" on Jun 02, which is supported by the U of T-CUHK Research Fund.
May 29, 2026: Lu Zhou successfully passed her M.Phil. thesis defense. Her thesis title is "Enhancing thermal comfort in semi-open spaces in mountainous areas". Congratulations to Lu!
May 29, 2026: Zhenyu Zou successfully passed CE written and oral exam. His thesis title is "Acceleration methods for multi-species fluid simulation of low-temperature plasmas". Congratulations to Zhenyu!