• Dr. Siu-Kit Lau received his Ph.D. in Acoustics and B.Eng.(1st Hons.) in Building Services Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2003 and 1997, respectively. Prior to join the University of Nebraska, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Building Services Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His primary research interest is in noise control, particularly active and passive control methods.
  
  Dr. Lau has much practical hands-on real-world expertise from being an industry engineer and manager. He has worked in the architectural engineering industry as a consultant engineer, prior his Ph.D. study. In 2001, he took up an Application Manager position at Acron International Technology Ltd, designing environmental systems (acoustics, energy efficient and indoor air quality systems). This was a company established under the entrepreneurship program of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. In 2002, he worked at Emerson Climate Technology, managing industrial R&D projects and analyzing & devising solutions to product design, especially to mechanical noise and vibration in industrial air conditioning and refrigeration systems. During 2005 - 2006, he joined Johnson Electric as an Assistant Manager (R&D) leading a team of research engineers for R&D projects of rotary machines. Dr. Lau is a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) and a Registered Professional Engineer (R.P.E.) in U.K. and Hong Kong, respectively.

• Ph.D. in Acoustics and Vibration - 2003
  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Thesis entitled: Active control of sound transmission into enclosure through a panel
• Bachelor of Engineering in Building Services Engineering with 1st Class Honors - 1997
  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• Assistant Professor, Charles W. Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, (2009 - Present)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, (2006 - 2009)
• Assistant Manager R&D (Noise and Vibration) and Member of Center of Excellence, Johnson Electric Industrial Manufactory Ltd., (2005 - 2006)
  
• Sound and Vibration Engineer, Emerson Climate Technologies, (2002 - 2005)
  
• Visiting Lecturer (part-time position), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, (2004 - 2006)
  
• Application Manager, Acron International Technology Ltd., (2001 - 2002)
  
• Engineer, Daniel Chan & Associates Ltd., (1995 - 1996, 1997 - 1998)

• Section Secretary for ASME Hong Kong Section (2007 - 09)
• Registered Professional Engineer, Hong Kong
• Member, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, Hong Kong
• Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council, U.K.
• Member, The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, U.K.
• Member, Institute of Acoustics, U.K.
• Qualified Vibration Diagnosis Specialist (Level 1), The Vibration Institute of India
• Member, The Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics, Hong Kong
• Member, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, U.S.A.
• Member, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers, Inc., U.S.A.
• Organizing committeeman, Symposium 2002 - "New trend in managing environmental noise in EU and Asian cities," The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on 30 May 2002.
• Program committee, ASME Asia-Pacific Engineering Education Congress, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan on April 9 - 11, 2009.

• Architectural Acoustics / Building Acoustics
• Active Control of Sound and Vibration / Active Sound Transmission Control
• Environmental Noise Control
• Machinery Vibration Diagnostics & Vibration-Based Condition Monitoring
• Product Sound Quality / Psycho-acoustics
• Beam-Forming and Hearing-Aid Devices

• Research Grant Council of Hong Kong
  • General Research Fund, US$41,175, "Active Noise Barrier for Moving Vehicles in High-rise Cities", Role: PI
    
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Internal Competitive Research Grant, US$41,131, "A New Wearable Vector-Sensor-Based Hearing-Aid for Cantonese (Tonal Language) Speakers" Role: Co-PI
    
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Joint Supervision Project Scheme with Mainland China, US$19,280, "Time-frequency Pressure Response of Pressure Pulsations in a Muffler with Temperature Gradient and Flow", Role: PI
    
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Internal Competitive Research Grant, US$41,131, "Localization and isolation of noise-polluting sound-sources onboard a mobile rail-car via acoustic measurements by a track-side microphone-array", Role: Co-PI
    
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Departmental General Research Funds, US$9,121, "Sound power estimation and source localization in reverberant environment", Role: PI.

JOURNAL PAPERS

• S.K. Lau and S.K. Tang 2000 Sound fields in a slightly damped rectangular enclosure under active control, Journal of Sound and Vibration 238(4), 637 - 660.

• S.K. Lau and S.K. Tang 2001 Sound fields in a rectangular enclosure under active sound transmission control, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 110(2), 925 - 938.

• S.K. Lau and S.K. Tang 2003 Active control on sound transmission into an enclosure through a flexible boundary with edges elastically restrained against translation and rotation, Journal of Sound and Vibration 259(3), 701 - 710.

• S.K. Lau and S.K. Tang 2003 Impacts of structural-acoustic coupling on the performance of energy density based active sound transmission control, Journal of Sound and Vibration 266(1), 147 - 170.

• S.K. Lau and S.K.Tang 2008 Spatial attenuation of sound in a rectangular enclosure under active control of sound transmission through an elastically supported flexible panel, Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control 27(2), 147 - 165.

• S.K. Lau and S.K.Tang 2009 An investigation on the performance of noise barrier inside enclosed space, Applied Acoustics 70, 50 - 57.

• L.Lin, Y.Li, Z.Gu, S.K. Lau and G.Cheng 2009 A square-line source model for calculating transfer matrix of two dimensional acoustic cavity (Chinese), [Accepted by Journal of Acta Physica Sinica]

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Daniel P.C. Chan, S.K. Lau and W.K. Chow 1998 A novel smoke control system for tall atrium, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Engineering Performance-Based Fire Codes, Hong Kong, 192 - 199.
  
  
• S.K. Lau and S.K. Tang 1998 Some investigations on energy-density based active noise control inside an enclosed space, Proceedings of the Acoustics & Vibration Asia '98, Singapore, 72 - 76.
  
  
• S.K. Lau and S.K. Tang 1999 A preliminary analyses on low frequency sound field inside an enclosed space under active control, Proceedings of ACTIVE 99, Fort Lauderdale, U.S.A., 753 - 764.
  
  
• S.K. Lau and S.K. Tang 2000 Analysis of energy-density based active control of sound transmission in a weak coupled panel-cavity system, Proceedings of The Seventh Western Pacific Regional Acoustics Conference, Kumamoto, Japan, 497 - 500.
  
  
• S.K. Lau and S.K. Tang 2001 Active sound transmission control for a weak panel-cavity coupled system through a elastically supported flexible boundary, Proceedings of The Eighth International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Hong Kong, China, 169 - 176.
  
  
• S.K. Lau and S.K.Tang 2006 Sound attenuation pattern in a rectangular enclosure under potential-energy based active sound transmission control, Proceeding of INTER-NOISE 2006, 3 - 6 December 2006, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. (CD-ROM).
  
  
• S.K. Lau 2007 Optimal circular array configuration. Proceedings of 14th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 9 - 12 July 2007, Cairns, Australia. (CD-ROM).
  
  
• Y.I.Wu, K.T.Wong and S.K. Lau 2008 Beacon-aided adaptive localization of sound-sources aboard a pass-by rail-car using a track-side acoustic microphone-array, Proceeding of INTER-NOISE 2008, 26 - 29 October 2008, Shanghai, China (CD-ROM).
  
  
• K.C. Tam, S.K. Lau and S.K.Tang 2008 Spatial decomposition of traffic noise with microphone array measurement, Proceeding of INTER-NOISE 2008, 26 - 29 October 2008, Shanghai, China (CD-ROM).
  
  
• Y.I.Wu, K.T.Wong and S.K. Lau 2008 Beacon-aided adaptive azimuth-elevation localization of sound-sources aboard a pass-by rail-car using a track-side acoustic microphone planar array, Proceeding of 3rd International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST 2008), 30 November - 3 December 2008, Taipei, Taiwan (CD-ROM).

• Acoustic barrier design for Princess Theatre in Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong, 1995.
• Background noise measurement in Hong Kong, contract NP97-042 of HKSAR government, 1997.
• Acoustic and building services consultancy of Metro Broadcast Corporation Ltd., 1997.
• Traffic noise measurement in Hong Kong, contract NP00-37 of HKSAR government, 2000.
• Building energy consumption survey in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong productivity council, 2001.
• Performance testing of commercial stream and hot water boiler, CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd., 2002.
• Performance testing of commercial clothes dryers, CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd., 2002.

• Refuse Collection Point at Yu Chau Street, Hong Kong. - ASD of HKSAR government, 2001.
• Science Park Phase 1A and 1B, Hong Kong - ASD of HKSAR government, 2001
• Smoking lounges in the Hong Kong International Airport, 2002.
• Firing Ranges in Police Headquarters, Hong Kong - ASD of HKSAR government, 2002.

• Galilee World Trade Centre, Beijing, PRC, 1995.
• Sine Favour Centre, Chai Wan, Hong Kong, 1995.
• Maybelline New Pharmaceutical Factory, Suzhou, PRC, 1996
• Sixteen-Storey Commercial / Residential Building at 226 - 228 Sai Yeung Choi Street, Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1997.
• Landmark East Redevelopment, Hong Kong, 1997.
• Chater House, 11 Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong, 1997.
• Landmark Tower, Phase 7, MTRC Kowloon Station, Hong Kong, 1997.