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Ir Professor Irene Man Chi Lo, FHKIE, Academician of EASA, CAP, JP
勞敏慈 講座教授, 註册工程師, 註冊碳排放審計師, 無國界工程師, 太平紳士


Ir Prof. Irene Man Chi Lo, JP, PhD
Chair Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2358-7157
Fax: (852) 2358-1534
Email: cemclo@ust.hk
http://home.ust.hk/~irenelo


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PHOTO GALLERY
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Visited University of Oxford in Mar 2025- Bodleian Library University of Oxford- Dormitory University of Oxford has 44 colleges- this is Christ Church College
Visited Prof. Luiza C. Campos of University College London in Mar 2025 Visited Imperial College London-Prof. Nigel Graham and Dr. Henry Lee in Mar 2025 Natural History Museum (just nearby Imperial Colleage London)
Visited Prof. Wonyong Choi of Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH) in Feb 2025 Visited Prof. Hyunjoo Lee of KIAST University in Feb 2025 Other than my hobby of geological tour (identifying rocks), I develop another hobby of acupuncture
Visited Prof. Changha Lee of Seoul National University in Feb 2025 Visited Prof. Joehyeong Khim of Korea University in Feb 2025 Joehyeong was my former classmate of UT-Austin, USA under the same supervisor Prof. Howard Liljestrand
Birthday wishes Dinner gathering with former research students on 11 Oct 2024 Little party with current research students in my office on 15 Oct 2024
IWA bi-annual conference award dinner in Aug 2024 at Toronto. Photo with Dr Sammual Chui, Director of HKEPD, HKSAR IWA awardees celebration HKIE dinner
HKIE Presidential Address and Dinner on 13/9/2024 at HKCEE, Wan Chai. Photo with our new President, Eric Ma Photo with HKIE Environmental Division Photo with Prof. Michael Leung of CityU and Louis Luk
A well-known Royal Palm Boulevard (椰林大道) at the NTU campus of over 95 years old A picture at the front gate of NTU After the whole day competition, we all felt relaxed and went to Raohe night market (台北饒河街夜市) for taking street foods
My PhD student, Justin Man made a 6-min presentation to the judging panel My PhD student, William Lung demonstrated our net-zero technology to the panelists and addressed their questions My PhD student, Max Dong introduced our research work to the President Prof. Chen of National Taiwan University (NTU)
The tropy is very heavy! It was a memorable experience to bring my 3 PhD students for this competition! We set up our booth on 20 August 2024 and practiced there to ensure everything was on right track We had confidence to win this competition using our innovative net-zero technology for wastewater treatment with H2 energy generation!
Our HKUST team won the first runner-up at the Net Zero Tech-2024 International Contest@Taiwan on 21 August Out of 99 International teams, we were shortlisted for the final The award for the 1st runner-up consists of a tropy and a monetary amount of TWD 600,000 (about USD 18,500)
30 years Long Service Award, presented by President Prof. Nancy Ip on 9 May 2023 Joining HKUST since 1992 The youngest and also the only female faculty in 1992. Time flies!
Photo with Dr. Barry Lee of HKIE Senior Vice President Photo with Dr. Andrew Chan, former CEO of Ove Arup Photo with the two outstanding UST UG graduates, Stephen Mak and Simon Ng
All UST graduates and Dr. Samuel Chui (Director of HKEPD, HKSAR) All former UG students graduated in mid 90s. Dr. Samuel Chui (HKEPD), myself, and Ricky Wong (Head of CEDD, HKSAR)
HKIE The 45th Annual Dinner at HKCEE on 17 March 2023 HKIE Environmental Division-group photo Prof. KM Shih, Prof. Zhou (my former student), Ricky Wong (Head of CEDD, HKSAR), myself
專家對話論壇 Panel Discussion: Myself (representing HK), 冀利民(Moderator), 馬軍(哈爾濱工業大學教授);郭有智 (中國水利副會長);胡扶同(华为公司水利水务行业首席专家) (representing Mainland China) 第四屆粵港澳大灣區水務論壇暨第十四屆深港珠澳供水界學術交流會 專家對話論壇 與香港高官及專業團體合照
香港特別行政區政府水務署與深圳市環境水務集團有限公司聯合舉辦學術交流會 17/11/2022 (L2: 環境及生態局副局長 Millie NG; L3: 渠務署署長 Alice PANG; L4: 水務署署長Kelvin LO L5: myself) 於香港故宮文化博物館 (賽馬會演講廳)擔任論壇的主題演講嘉賓 以普通話演講
Hiking with current research students on 30 Oct 2022 Nice hiking path at Big Wave Bay 4.5 hours hiking but pretty tired afterwards
Current research students in my office on 13 Oct 2022 Nice birthday cake. They know that I like rich and dark chocolate Three newly intake PhD students in Sept 2022 - Justin, Ida and Max
Former research students gathering on 3 Oct 2022 Glad to see that they all work in government departments, university and industry Nice birthday cake
Departing from Wan Chai Heliport (HK07) to Hei Ling Chau in June 2022 to visit prison. Sitting in the helicoper Departing from Hei Ling Chau Island Heliport (CC05)
Farewell party for the graduation of my MPhil student, Kendric Aaron Tee in my newly rennovated office. Kendric is from Philippine. He is the first research student whom I recruited from Philippine. Quite special! The belated farewell party was arranged on 11 May 2022 because of Covid 19.
Re-union with former research graduates (young batch) on 13 Oct 2021 Re-union with former research graduates (old batch) on 14 Oct 2021 Hiking with current research students at Hoi Ha Wan, Sai Kung on 17 Oct 2021
Working with Sino group on their Net Zero Carbon projects. It will be mentioned in their Substainability Report 2021 Photo taken with David Ng, Sino Group Associate Director. Photo taken at the roof top of Skyline Tower, Kowloon Bay.
HKIE Presidential Dinner Invitation Receiving the award of 2021 HKIE Outstanding Paper Award from HKIE new president Ir Edwin Chung on 24 Sept 2021. It is a collaborative study with Drainage Services Department (left-Kenny Hui). This research was conducted by my former PhD student, Dr. Andy HE.Dr. HE is now in China. Unfortuantely, he couldn't come to receive the award with me. Photo (left-HKIE Vice President-Ir Dr Barry Lee)
PhD defense on 17 Aug 2021-Mohammad Abu Hashnat BADSHA Farewell hiking at Pak Shui Wun, Sai Kung. Dr. Badsha gets an offer as postdoctoral researcher at State University of New York.
After finishing the setup, WSD staff and students let the unmanned surface vehicle go to the reservoir to take our mission The movement of the vehicle is done according to our preset route All real time data is recorded on the computer
New project with Water Supplies Department. We were on the speed boat on the water of Plover Cove Reservoir (船灣淡水湖) on 17 Aug 2021 This is an unmanned surface vehicle (無人船) installed with 9 water quality sensors and GPS, being used to measure the real time water quality of the reservioir Also the unmanned surface vehicle can take water samples for lab measurement
沙塘口山的沙塘口洞. 花山被海浪切割,分出破邊洲一座小岛,典型海蝕柱! 横州大洞(似台湾map, 故又稱小台灣).
Had a geological trip on 14 Aug 2021 to visit 西貢超级大火山 (吊鐘州,果州群島,饔缸群島). 吊鐘州 (Tiu Chung Chau) 的金魚擺尾/吊鐘洞 果州群岛(Ninepin Islands)的迴轉的楷梯
Supposed to go to the universities in Taiwan and London for a few months visiting in 2021, but all were in vain. So I decided to take “French Wine Tasting” and “Star Photography” introductory courses this summer to equip myself. 用app找星座位置不難,然後去影張星座相/流星雨相也不難,但影張好相就好難,尤其我部相機太低級! 學了好多法國紅酒白酒甜酒的知識,至少看懂法國酒標,如何選支fine wine with reasonable price, 學會品嘗酒! 2009 Chateau Pontet-Canet, Pauilliac rated by Robert Parker- 100! But not expensive ~HK$1800.
A meeting on 25 Jun 2021 with Mr. David Ng, Associate Director of Sino Group and his team members in Corporate Marketing, Sustainability and Innovation Departments. A collaborative project has been established. I also showed them around our innovative environmental projects in our lab. My research students demonstrated our visitors about their experimental setup and findings
Research group farewell hiking in June 2021 for Dr. Saeed Ahmed. Dr Ahmed had been serving as a postdoctoral fellow for 2 years under my supervision. We also had a farewell party at our restaurant Passion with a wonderful sharing.
My effort on the preparation of zoom teaching for a large year 1 class of 170 students was not in vain. The students' teaching evaluation comments are encouraging. I get used to classroom teaching but zoom teaching requires different teaching skill. I am glad to develop my own skills for zoom teaching.
Our department 30th anniversary (1991-2021)- Colleagues in Environmental group Profs. Im, Shang, Lau, Lo, Chen and Zhang We all joined the department at different time
Our newly invented photocatalyst using solar light to disinfect three types of bacteria: E. coli and E. faecalis, S. typhimurium . It is a green and sustainable water and wastewater treatment technology. It has been tested by using local wastewater and shows promising results A farewell photo taken with my postdoctoral fellow, Dr. July Dong Chengcheng on 8 Feb after her 18 months work at HKUST.
My PhD student, Andy Juhua HE performed excellent in his PhD defense on 18 Dec 2020. We arranged a celebration and farewell party for him. Time flies. Andy already spent 4.5 years in HKUST for his PhD study. Andy was sharing his living and studying experience with our research group members.
My UG student, Kwok Wai Pong received the HKIE Environmental Division Prize for 2019-2020 Best Final-Year Environmental Project. Photo with other winners_2020-12-22. Invited to give a short speech.
This is my 4th time of receiving the teaching excellence award in my career. But this time is quite special to me because the teaching performance is based on zoom teaching rather than conventional classroom face-to-face teaching. My motto of teaching is “A good teacher is like a candle-it consumes itself to light the way for students”. Two books influence my philosophy of education- (1) Tuesday with Morrie” and “啟導人師“.
These 3 photos show the HKUST 14th Congregation in 2006. The Hooding Ceremony is a special recognition for graduates receiving a Ph.D. degree. During the congregation, the supervisor and the Ph.D. graduate wear academic regalia (cap and gown). The Ph.D. graduate (Dr. Daniel Tsang, the current professor in PolyU) received his hood from his supervisor (me). It symbolizes the successful transfer of knowledge from the supervisor to the student. It is a very meaningful and memorable moment in our life. Perhaps I would say that the hooding ceremony is equally important as (if not more important than) the wedding ceremony.
HKUST 28th Congregation on 20 Nov 2020. Unfortunately, it was a virtual (online) congregation. Dr.WU Baile, Barry Dr. KUMAR Ashutosh Dr. KHAN Musharib
Dinner with my early batch of former research students: Shelley and Alex-2020-10-19 Dinner with my former research students: Mark, Dickson and Sam-2020-10-20 Dinner with my youngest former research student: Chris-2020-10-22
Dinner with my former research students: Keith, Daniel, Ken (1)-2020-10-15 Dinner (at ATUM -K11) with my former research students (2)-2020-10-15 Nice tiramisu birthday cake
Research group for birthday celebration (1)-2020-10-14 Research group for birthday celebration (2)-2020-10-14 Birthday wish
Hiking at Tung Ping Chau (to see 5500萬年的沉積岩-頁岩) with my current research students for birthday celebration-2020-10-11 Tung Ping Chau 更樓石 Tung Ping Chau 更樓石 (2 pieces at the back)
Tung Ping Chau-龍落水 Tung Ping Chau-海蝕柱1 Tung Ping Chau-海蝕柱2
The project for Engineers Without Boarder (EWB, 無國界工程師) in Myanmar has been cancelled this year due to COVID19. Hope we can go there next year! We are supposed to help them build a simple drinking water treatment system because the current water that they are taking (as shown in the photo) is unacceptable Today we had a webinar via zoom with the people in Myanmar. I really admire those young engineers, doing such meaningful engineering projects to assist people in need
After an intensive training course in early 2020, I passed the professional examination in Geotourism. I am now a qualified geo-tour guide (地質旅遊導賞員)! I hope to integrate my environmental knowledge into the geo-tour to make people understand our rocks in HK in various aspects. Of course, it is free. 泥盆紀(4億年前)最古老的沉積岩! 黃竹角咀的沉積岩, 其著名的奇石就是『鬼手石』。它是如何形成?你知道嗎?我們講石頭,也講出它的故事! 赤洲,不整合的岩石,東面是1億年前的沉積岩, 西面是1億4千萬年前的火成岩。為什麼紅色(赤)呢?為什麼出現2種岩石?
Only me in this UST canteen enjoying breakfast and sea view after implementing a "work from home" policy again- July 2020 Taken from my campus quarters. What a terrific campus 地靈人傑! It is the place where I have been working for almost my whole life! Working in my office with such a transquil environment, facing Sharp Island and Half Moon Bay, rejuvenates my mind!
Newly designed pilot-scale reactor for river water treatment-2020 La-based granular adsorption column system-2020 La-based nano-magnetic adsorbent in fluidized bed system-2020
Reactor panel control-2020 Sampling of treated river water-2020 Our pilot-scale reactor for river water treatment in Tai Po-2020
A unique farewell activity as we all wore masks-2020-02-24 Farewell Dr. Yanyang Zhang under the outbreak of Conronavirus-2020-02-24 A talent postdoctoral fellow working with me for 1 year-2020-02-24
Our research group will miss you a lot and we wish you a bright career-2019-12-27 A memorable with deep sharing BBQ night to farewell 3 PhD students (now 3 Drs)-2019-12-27 A strong bonding and supportive research group-2019-12-27
Congratulations to Barry Baile Wu-passed PhD defense-2019-12-19 Dr. Wu, treasure the time you worked with me at HKUST and so proud of you Congratulations to Musharib Khan-passed PhD defense-2019-12-20
Dr. Khan, treasure the time you worked with me at HKUST and so proud of you Congratulations to Ashutosh Kumar-passed PhD defense-2019-12-20 Dr. Kumar, treasure the time you worked with me at HKUST and so proud of you
8th IWA Aspire International Conference-HK 1
2019-11-01
8th IWA Aspire International Conference-HK 2
2019-11-01
8th IWA Aspire International Conference-HK 3
2019-11-01
8th IWA- Smart solutions
2019-11-01
8th IWA- VR in environmental application-1
2019-11-01
8th IWA- VR in environmental application-2
2019-11-01
Birthday celebration 1-thanks to colleagues-graduates-students
2019-10-12
Birthday celebration 2-thanks to colleagues-graduates-students
2019-10-25
Birthday celebration 3-thanks to colleagues-graduates-students
2019-10-26
Gatherings with former research students 1
2019-10-26
Gatherings with former research students 2
2019-10-26
Gatherings with former research students 3
2019-10-26
Prof. Lo birthday activity 1
2019-10-13
Prof. Lo birthday hiking 2
2019-10-13
Prof. Lo birthday hiking 3
2019-10-13
Prof. Lo birthday hiking 4
2019-10-13
Prof. Lo birthday hiking 5
2019-10-13
Prof. Lo birthday hiking 6
2019-10-13
Dr. Barry Lee of AEL
HKIE Presidential Dinner 2019
Adjunct Prof. C F Lam
HKIE Presidential Dinner 2019
President Prof. Paul Lam of OpenU and Adjunct Prof. Louis Lock
HKIE Presidential Dinner 2019
HKIE former and present President, & President Prof. Tony Chan of HKUST
HKIE Presidential Dinner 2019
HKIE Environmental discipline dinner
2019
HKIE Environmental forum
2019
Group lunch for new students
2019-08-24
Prof. Daniel Giammar's visit
2019-08-05
Farewell lunch for Dr Xiong
2019-06-21
Wonderful gathering with my former PhD supervisor of UT Austin, Prof. Howard Liljestrand
2019-03
Farewell lunch for Dr Lan and Dr Rayees
2019-03-14
Group lunch
2019-01-31
Lunch for Christmas and new year
2018-12-21
Congragation day 3 2018
2018-11-10
Congregation day 2 2018
2018-11-15
Congregation day 1 2018
2018-11-15
Reunion with former research student from Thailand, Dr. Visanu Tanboonchuy
2018-11-10
Dr. Visanu Tanboonchuy of Khon KaenUniversity
2018-11-10
Prof. Lo's birthday activity 1
2018-10-19
Prof. Lo's birthday activity 2
2018-10-19
Prof. Lo's birthday activity 3
2018-10-19
Birthday dinner with my former research students. They're always kind to me even after graduation for many years
2018-10-19
Farewell-birthday-welcome activity 1
2018-08-31
Farewell-birthday-welcome activity 2
2018-08-31
HKIE annual dinner 2
2018-05
HKIE annual dinner 1
2018-05
HKIE iob shadowing visit at ATAL
2018-04-25
Reunion with former Postdoc Dr Peter Wang of KAUST university, Saudi Arabia
2018-04-14
City of Saudi Arabia
2018-04-14
Landing on the sand island (middle of Red Sea), Saudi Arabia
2018-04-14
Scuba diving in Red Sea. I swam in Dead Sea in Jordan before and so much fun to swim in Red Sea this time
2018-04-11
Farewell lunch for my post-doc, Dr. Weilan Zhang
2018-04-11
Andy's birthday lunch
2018-03-12
Birthday-cum-new-year lunch
2018-01-17
Congregation Day 2017 1
2017-11-17
Congregation Day 2017 2
2017-11-17
Congregation Day 2017 3
2017-11-17
Congregation Day 2017 4
2017-11-17
Prof. Giammar's visit
2017-10-18
Prof. Lo's birthday activity 1
2017-10-14
Prof. Lo's birthday activity 2
2017-10-14
Prof. Lo's birthday activity 3
2017-10-14
Prof. Lo's birthday activity 4
2017-10-14
Farewell lunch for Dr. Rokhs 1
2017-10-06
Farewell lunch for Dr. Rokhs 2
2017-10-06
Farewell activity for Sam Chiu 1
2017-08-26
Farewell activity for Sam Chiu 2
2017-08-26
Farewell activity for Sam Chiu 3
2017-08-26
Applied Environmental Nanotechnolgy Workshop 1
2017-06-01
Applied Environmental Nanotechnolgy Workshop 2
2017-06-01
Applied Environmental Nanotechnolgy Workshop 3
2017-06-01
BWR Conference
2017-05-25
Farewell lunch for Dr. Fang
2017-05-17
Guangzhou Conference 1
2017-05-13
Guangzhou Conference 2
2017-05-13
HKIE Job shadowing visit at EPD
2017-04-13
Birthday lunch for Dr. Fang, Dr. Rokhs and Andy
2017-03-15
Birthday-cum-welcoming lunch
2017-02-06
Re-union with graduates and their family members-Dr Weihua Zhang and Dr Tony Liu
2017-01-23
Re-union with graduates in Guangzhou for 2-day holiday
2017-01-23
Dinner with Jack
2017-01-17
Ash's birthday activity 1
2016-12-31
Ash's birthday activity 2
2016-12-31
Congregation Day 2016 1
2016-11-17
Congregation Day 2016 2
2016-11-17
Congregation Day 2016 3
2016-11-17
Congregation Day 2016 4
2016-11-17
HKIE environmental annual reception 1
2016-11-11
HKIE environmental annual reception 2
2016-11-11
Prof. Lo's birthday activity 1
2016-10-16
Prof. Lo's birthday activity 2
2016-10-16
Green FinancexClimate Innovation
2016
Birthday and welcome lunch 1
2016-08-26
Birthday and welcome lunch 2
2016-08-26
Jack's farewell lunch. Jack graduated from Buisness School of CUHK and Moved to HKUST for Environmental Enginering study
2016-05-31
Prof. Giammar's visit 1
2015-12-11
Prof. Giammar's visit 2
2015-12-11
Congregation Day 1
2015-11-20
Congregation Day 2
2015-11-20
Research group trip to Yim Tin Tsai for Prof. Lo's birthday
2015-10-17
Dinner for Prof. Lo's birthday
2015-10-17
Trip to Hong Kong History Museum
2015-08-29
Farewell dinner for Vincent & Jenny
2015-08-29
Farewell dinner for Simon 1
2015-06-08
Farewell dinner for Simon 2
2015-06-08
Welcome lunch for Dennis
2015-03-19
Research group trip to Lamma Island
2014-08-18
Golf Activity at Sai Kung 1
2014-07-05
Golf Activity at Sai Kung 2
2014-07-05
Simon's birthday
2014-02-06
Chinese University-20th Anniversary workshop
2014-01-25
HKIE Annual forum
2014-04-09
New research findings
2014-08-20
Visit to Wong Tai Sin Temple
2014-02-06
Vincent Gan's birthday
2014-01-18
New Year celebration
2014-01-01
Prof Lo's birthday
2013-10-11
Farewell party at Prof Lo's university quarters
2013-08-31
Farewell party for Harry, Samuel, Dickson and Judy for their graduation
2013-08-31
Judy's birthday
2013-07-26
Trip to Turkey with 3 PhD students (Simon, Vincent and Dickson)
2013-06-18
Research group trip to Big Buddha
2013-06-02
World Economic Forum-Zero Waste(2)
2012
World Economic Forum-Zero Waste(1)
2012
Research group trip to Kowloon Walled City Park 2
2012-11-18
Research group trip to Sun Yat-sen Museum
2012-08-18
Research group trip to Noah's Ark 1
2012-04-21
Research group trip to Noah's Ark 2
2012-04-21
Congregation Day 2011
2011-11-16
Research group hiking at Geopark
2011-10-16
Trip to Shanghai with my postdoc (Dr Paul Rao) and my PhD student (Mark Mak)
2011-01-03
Group dinner at Simply Thai
2010-11-17
Theo's farewell BBQ at Tai Au Mun
2010-08-28
Congregation Day 2009
2009-11-11
HKIE Annual Dinner-Kelvin received Young Engineer Award2
2010
HKIE Annual Dinner-Kelvin received Young Engineer Award
2010
HKIE Presidential dinner
2009
Dinner for Prof. Lo's birthday
2009-10-10
Trip to Shanghai
2009-06-02
Trip to Harbin 1- Appointment of Adjunct Professorship
2009-01-03
Trip to Harbin 2- enjoyed skiing with students
2009-01-03
Waste Management Conference
2009
Research group and FYP
2009
Mark, Theo, Peter, Tony and Prof. Lo
2008
Hiking at Tai Long Wan with research students
2008-10-11
Conference in Greece
2008-09-30
Eco tour to Lai Chi Wo
2008-02-24
Hiking at Wilson Trail
2007-10-14
Beers for Prof. Lo's birthday
2007-10-14
Michael G. Gale Outstanding Teaching Award 1
2006-11-08
Michael G. Gale Outstanding Teaching Award 2
2006-11-08
Trip to Nigeria with my PhD student, Daniel Tsang
2006-10-06
Trip to Nigeria- unforgettable experience
2006-09-16
Cycling in Shatin with students
2006-08-21
ICE Best Paper Award
2006-05-29
Prof. Lo and Jess in PG dorm
2006
Farewell Agnes
2006
Farewell Agnes
2006
Prof. Lo and Hu Jing
2006
Farewell Hu Jing
2006
Farewell Hu Jing
2006
Celebrating New Year Eve with students
2006-01-01
Keith's birthday
2005-08-24
BBQ at Half-Moon Bay
2005-08-05
Jess birthday celebration
2006
Research group gathering
2005-10
Research group gathering
2005-10
Trip to USA for conference in Las Vegas with PhD students- helicopter flying to Grand Canyon
2005-07-28
Trip to USA for conference in Las Vegas
2005-07-28
Research group hiking at High Junk Peak
2005-06-11
Pilot-scale study with research students (Daniel) in Jiangxi
2005-09
Pilot-scale study with research students (Kelvin and Keith) in Jiangxi
2005-09
Gathering for Keith Lai birthday
2005-08
Gathering for Keith Lai birthday
2005-08
Prof. Lo, Jess, Agnes, Keth, Weihua, Hu Jing, Kelvin, Daniel
2005
Receiving ASCE James Croes Medal on Research-Baltimore-USA
2004