Professor Shiu Keung Tang

Professor Shiu Keung Tang

Professor of Acoustic Engineering

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Science and Engineering
  • School of Engineering

Qualifications

  • PhD / DPhil (The University of Hong Kong )

Summary

Prof S K Tang obtained his BSc(Eng) from the Mechanical Engineering Department of The University of Hong Kong in 1987. He finished his PhD specializing in acoustics and fluid dynamics from the same department in 1992.

Prof Tang joined the Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1993 and since then has been involved in teaching and research related to the built environment, environmental noise, building acoustics, signal processing and data analysis.

Prof Tang moved to The University of Hull in February 2022. He is the Director of the Acoustic Research Centre. His current research interests include energy-friendly silencing technology for flow duct applications and the related aeroacoustics, natural ventilation enabling noise insulation devices, energy harvesters, acoustic metamaterial applications and etc.

Prof Tang is the Editors-in-Chief of the journal Applied Acoustics and is also an associate editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Determinants of soundscape quality of communal open space in Hong Kong

LIN, M., CHAU, C. K., TANG, S. K., CHUNG, W. K., & YU, H. M. (2025). Determinants of soundscape quality of communal open space in Hong Kong. Building and Environment, 267, part A, Article 112261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.112261

A feasibility study on active sound reduction across an acoustic plenum window by cancelling source clusters on internal periphery of the window cavity

Chan, P. Y., Tang, S. K., Cheung, C. C., Mui, K. W., & Fu, S. C. (2024). A feasibility study on active sound reduction across an acoustic plenum window by cancelling source clusters on internal periphery of the window cavity. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156(4), 2155-2168. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0030407

Acoustic comfort in educational buildings: An integrative review and new directions for future research

Zhang, D., Wong, L. T., Mui, K. W., & Tang, S. K. (2024). Acoustic comfort in educational buildings: An integrative review and new directions for future research. Building and Environment, 262, Article 111849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111849

Sound transmission across a rectangular duct section with a thin micro-perforated wall backed by a sidebranch cavity

Fung, M. L., Tang, S. K., & Leung, M. (2024). Sound transmission across a rectangular duct section with a thin micro-perforated wall backed by a sidebranch cavity. Applied acoustics. Acoustique appliqué. Angewandte Akustik, 219, Article 109920. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2024.109920

Effect of perceived dominance and pleasantness on the total noise annoyance responses evoked by augmenting road traffic noise with birdsong/stream sound

Chau, C. K., Leung, T. M., Chung, W. K., & Tang, S. K. (2023). Effect of perceived dominance and pleasantness on the total noise annoyance responses evoked by augmenting road traffic noise with birdsong/stream sound. Applied acoustics. Acoustique appliqué. Angewandte Akustik, 213, Article 109650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2023.109650

Research interests

Building and Environmental Acoustics

Aeroacoustics

Fluid Dynamics

Journal editorial role

Editor in Chief, Applied Acoustics Journal

2022 - 2025

Prof Tang is the Editor-in-Chief of the Applied Acoustics Journal. The Journal is published by Elsevier, and its impact factor as on 30 Sept 2024 is 3.4 (JCR Q1, 6/40)

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers

2018

Other

Top 2% of Scientists in Acoustics

2020

Top 2% of Scientists in Acoustics (Career & Single year), Science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, Elsevier Data Repository

Visiting/Invited Professor

Visiting Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2021 - 2025

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