Professor Anthony Yeh Gar-on, Chair Professor of the HKU Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), which is an autonomous international organization, founded in 1983 by a distinguished group of scientists and officially launched by the United Nations in 1985. The Academy is currently composed of 999 of the most distinguished scientists worldwide. Only scientists who have attained the highest international standards and made significant contributions to the advancement of science can be nominated as Fellows or Associate Fellows. Fellows are scientists who live and work in developing countries and who have made contributions to their fields of science that meet internationally accepted standards of excellence. Professor Anthony Yeh is the third Fellow from HKU elected by the Academy after Professors Vivian Yam and Che Chi-ming, who were elected in 2006 and 2007 respectively. Professor Yeh is a pioneer in the development of advanced GIS methods and models for the planning of sustainable development, especially in the development of cellular automata urban planning models. He is also internationally known for his studies of urban spatial structures in Hong Kong and China.

Professor Anthony Yeh