HONG-FENG YANG

Office:
Room 319, 3/F,
Mong Man Wai Building

Phone:
(852) 3943 9824

Email:
hyang@cuhk.edu.hk

ORCID:
0000-0002-5925-6487

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HONG-FENG YANG 楊宏峰 (Professor)

Education:

  • Ph.D., Seismology, Saint Louis University, 2010
  • M.S., Geophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2004
  • B.S., Geophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2000

Academic Employments:

  • 2024.8 - present, Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • 2024.2 - present, Director, Aerospace Science and Earth Informatics + X Double Major Programme
  • 2020.8 - 2024.7, Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • 2014.8 - 2020.7, Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • 2013.2 – 2014.7, Research Scientist, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 2010.9 – 2013.1, Postdoctoral Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Joint Affiliation and Honorary Appointment:

  • 2023.11 - 2028.11, Scientific Advisor, Hong Kong Observatory
  • 2020.3 - 2022.3, Guest Professor, Institute of Earthquake Forecasting, CEA
  • 2019.9 - present, Research Fellow, Institute of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • 2018.5 - present, Guest Professor, State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Insti- tute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration (CEA)
  • 2015.3 - present, Research Fellow, Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Research Fields and Current Research Interests:

  • Earthquake source physics
  • Subduction zone processes and megathrust earthquakes
  • High- resolution structure and temporal variation of crustal fault zones
  • Induced earthquakes

Honours and Awards:

  • 2023, Outstanding Editorial Service, Earthquake Science
  • 2023, Innovative Exploration Award of Dense Array, CGS-Continental Dynamics
  • 2022, High Citation Paper, CNKI
  • 2022, Outstanding Editorial Service, Earthquake Research Advances
  • 2022, Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award, Faculty of Science,CUHK
  • 2021, Grand Prize of Ocean Science and Technology,Chinese Society for Oceanography
  • 2021, Outstanding Associate Editor, Earthquake Science
  • 2021 and 2020, Outstanding Editorial Service, Earth and Planetary Physics
  • 2018 Fuchengyi Young Scientist Award by CGS
  • 2017, 2016 Editors Citation for Excellence in Refereeing-Geophysical Research Letters
  • 2012 Nominee for the Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, Saint Louis University
  • 2010, 1st place in Graduate Research Symposium, Saint Louis University
  • 2009, Travel Grant Awardee: SEG and SSA annual meetings

College Affiliation in CUHK:

  • New Asia College

Synergistic Activities and Professional Societies:

  • Associate Editor: Seismological Research Letters, Earthquake Science, Earthquake research Advances and CHN Journal of Geophysics
  • Editorial board: Tectonophysics, Earth and Planetary Physics, Earthquake Research
  • Steering committee member for China Earthquake Experimental Site
  • Committee: Marine Geophysics, Chinese Geophysical Society; Continental Dynamics, Chinese Geophysical Society; Seismology, Seismological Society of China; Tectonophysics, Seismological Society of China; China Earthquake Experimental Site, China Earthquake Administration
  • Membership: American Geophysical Union (AGU), Chinese Geophysical Society (CGS), Seismological Society of America (SSA), Seismological Society of China (SSOC), Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
  • Grant Reviewer: NSFC, NSF-Geophysics, NSF-Earthscope
  • Journal Reviewer: Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., Geophys. J. Int., Geophys. Res. Lett., J. Geophys. Res., Marine Geophys. Res., Nature Scientific Reports, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Science, Science China D, Science Bull., Seismol. Res. Lett., Tectonophysics
  • Outstanding Student Paper Judge: AGU since 2012; Earthscope meeting, 2011

Research Grants at CUHK:

  • Near-field ground motion prediction from dynamic rupture simulations and validation of strong earthquakes in western China, Yang, H., 10/2023-9/2026, RGC GRF, Hong Kong
  • Foreshocks and subsurface changes prior to strong earthquakes in western Yunnan, China, 10/2022-9/2025, RGC GRF,PI
  • Investigating fault zone structure and earthquakes in the Weiyuan shale gas field, Sichuan, China, 10/2021-9/2024, RGC GRF, PI
  • Investigation of seismic structure and outer-rise faulting at the southernmost Mariana subduction zone, 10/2020-9/2023, RGC GRF,PI
  • Modeling rupture segmentation and tsunamigenic rupture scenarios along the Cascadia megathrust, 10/2019-9/2022, RGC GRF, PI
  • Inferring frictional properties on seismogenic faults from kinematic and dynamic earthquake source modeling, 01/2019-12/2021, RGC GRF, PI
  • Investigation of fault zone structure and evolution from waveforms recorded at a dense seismic network, 01/2018-12/2020, RGC GRF, PI
  • Source characteristics of induced earthquakes associated with shale gas production in Weiyuan, Sichuan, 01/2017-12/2020, RGC/NSFC joint scheme, PI
  • Investigation of shallow seismogenesis on the southern Mariana megathrust, 01/2017-12/2019, RGC GRF, PI
  • Seismicity induced by underground injection and extraction of natural gas, 06/2016-11/2017, CUHK-UoM Research Fund, PI
  • Investigation of characteristics and mechanism of earthquakes associated with the Hutubi gas reservoir, 01/2016-12/2019, RGC/NSFC joint scheme, co-I
  • Dynamic Controls on Megathrust Slip: Details from the Nicoya 2012 Earthquake, 2016/01-2018/12, RGC ECS, PI