Professor Jinlian Hu is a faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of CityU and leads the Laboratory of Wearable Materials for Healthcare. She is a renowned scientist with industrial impact due to her unparalleled original academic research in smart materials for medical and textile applications. She won Fortune 500 such as Procter & Gamble and INVISTA (originally DuPont fibers, No. 1 in Textile Fibers) continuous trust with consecutive projects for developing sustainable products. Her technologies transferred to companies have improved industry competitiveness, thus she obtained the highest International Consultancy Awards two times and one Technology Transfer Award in HKPolyU where she worked for more than two decades. Professor Hu is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Hong Kong Institution of Textile and Apparel, and the British Textile Institute. She is the founding chairman of the Hong Kong Health Science and Technology Park, and the executive vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Invention and Innovation Federation.
