Ir Professor KC Chan is Head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Having obtained his Associateship in Production and Industrial Engineering, and received a formal engineering graduate training for about 2 years in Hong Kong, he began his PhD study in Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1987. He then joined the Department of Manufacturing Engineering of the same Institution as an assistant lecturer in 1990. Over the past 20 years, he has been contributing to the teaching of various undergraduate and postgraduate subjects, and the development and management of academic programmes. Currently, he is the undergraduate programmes director of the Dept., laboratory-in-charge of Materials Engineering Laboratory, and the programme leader of the Bachelor of Engineering programme.

His research areas include bulk metallic glasses, superplasticity, processing and properties of advanced materials, and electrodeposition of metals and oxides.