School News

Dr. Matthias BUEHLMAIER
Principal Lecturer

“I deeply care about our students at FBE and about creating a positive impact in their lives through better teaching. As a teacher and instructor, what matters most to me is to foster long-lasting changes in student’s professional lives and careers by going beyond the daily routine of delivering courses and lectures. In each and every class, I ask myself how the material taught can be used and applied by students not only to hopefully receive a good grade at the end of the course, but more importantly how it can be employed to make wise career choices and to advance students’ careers even many years after graduation.”

Dr. Alex CHAN
Principal Lecturer

“My teaching practice is to establish an effective learning environment for students. Excellent course preparation is one of the essential elements. For example, specially designed project works can let students understand how to apply theoretical financial models into real world situations and also enhance their learning interests through the practical experience. A mutual respect and trust relationship between a teacher and students is another essential element, which allows a teacher to provide a personalized teaching and learning experience to individual students. I believe that every student in my class is a distinctive individual. I do my best to recognize every student in my class and understand the student’s learning progress. This personalization practice can effectively encourage students to actively participate in class discussion, and also allow me to provide immediate guidance to those who need additional support. Finally, students’ learning attitude and learning effectiveness can be greatly enhanced.”

Dr. Heng CHEN
Associate Professor

“Teachers’ beliefs are self-fulfilling. When we believe our students have high potentials, we set high expectations for them and they perform well. A great teacher should be a giver who is inclined to discover the potential of students, hold on the optimistic beliefs about them and take efforts to develop them.”

Mr. David LEE
Senior Lecturer

“Two aspects of my teaching practice that I am striving to develop have recently been on my mind. First, are ways to create a more active classroom learning environment that expands beyond traditional teacher delivered lectures. There are myriad ways to accomplish this, including technology tools, which I am trying to incorporate more effectively. Second, I have tried to cultivate more reflection in my teaching practice to help me not just assess my teaching, but more importantly, to help me determine if students are learning well too, which is the ultimate goal.

Admittedly, though there are many areas of my teaching practice that are still developing, I am grateful for the opportunity I have to be in the classroom and teach such wonderful students. Teaching at HKU is truly a privilege in my life.”

Dr. Winnie LEUNG
Principal Lecturer

“As a teacher, I have been supporting my students to develop passion and professionalism in their academic disciplines. Students find my teaching useful and relevant if I can demonstrate to them how the subject knowledge is linked to real life contexts and their future career. Students would also like to put what they have learnt into practice during their studies, so it is crucial for teachers to build up a practical learning environment that encourages and empowers our students to grow and develop.

Apart from specialized knowledge, students should be equipped with generic skills such as critical thinking and problem solving skills. These abilities are of utmost importance to facilitate their life-long learning and enhance their sustainability in face of various challenges and competitions. Still, this is not enough. In this ever-changing world, people use creativity to stand out among others. I believe inspiring students to think and stay on the cutting-edge of global trends is always the right way to help our students create a successful career and make contribution to the advancement of society.”

Dr. Sangyoon PARK
Assistant Professor

“As a student, I failed my first intermediate microeconomics course, receiving an indisputable F as a final grade. Among other excuses, I found the content difficult (with all the first order and second order conditions) and boring (e.g., how is knowing how to disentangle substitution effect from income effect useful for solving real world issues?). So the moment I learned that I would be teaching this course at HKU I was strongly committed to change this perception. To accomplish this, in the past two years, I have developed in-class experimental learning sessions to provide students with an engaging and tangible learning experience and introduced some of my ongoing research projects to convey to students how microeconomic theory can be applicable and utilized for understanding human behavior and institutions in the real world.”

Dr. Danqing WANG
Assistant Professor

“I enjoy teaching and interacting with students. My teaching philosophy is simple: truly care about the students and enjoy the time with them! Students know whether you truly care about them or not. And they reciprocate by being engaged and being thankful. When you truly care about the students, teaching is not something counted as “teaching load”, or duties specified in the contract. It is how you define your career, how you define who you are and how you would like to spend your life in a meaningful way. I enjoy sharing my knowledge and experiences with students. And I highly value the title of “professor” as to communicate and to pass on

Professor Haipeng SHEN
Patrick S C Poon Professor in Analytics and Innovation