Dr Furong Gao is a Chair Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), he also serves HKUST as the Founding Director, Center for Polymer Processing and Systems (CPPS) since 2007 and international molding communities as the President, Society of Advanced Molding Technology (SAMT) since 2017.

Professor Gao received his BEng in Automation from China University of Petroleum in 1985, MEng and PhD, both in Chemical Engineering, from McGill University in 1989 and 1993, respectively. Before joining HKUST in 1995, he worked as a Senior Research Engineer from 1993 to 1995 in charge of Intelligent Process Control (IPC) project at Moldflow Pty Ltd (now, a part of Autodesk Inc), Melbourne, Australia. His research interest is in batch process automation method developments and their applications to polymer processing and energy management areas. To date, he has authored more than 500 journal and conference papers, seven books, and 80 patents. Some of his technologies have been licensed to several major molding and control companies and he founded two start-up companies.