Host

Arthur FT Mak 麥福達

Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Engineering

The host has helped design 2 General Education courses, both entitled ‘Bionic Human & the Future of Being Human’ – one at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and one at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The courses, with their different emphases, are open to all undergraduate students in the two universities respectively.

Prof. Arthur Mak obtained his B.Sc. in Engineering Mechanics with highest honor from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned his Ph.D. in Biomechanics at Northwestern University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he took up an Assistant Professorship in Bioengineering & Orthopedic Research at University of Pennsylvania. After completing his M.A. from Westminster Theological Seminary, Arthur joined the Jockey Club Rehabilitation Engineering Center at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in 1988 and became Chair Professor in 1997. He later also served PolyU as Founding Head of Department of Health Technology & Informatics, Associate Vice President (Academic), and Founding Dean of Students. Arthur moved to The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2011 and led the Biomedical Engineering Programme there as its Director & Division Head. Upon his retirement from CUHK, he joined Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) as Associate Vice President (Student Experience) in 2019. He rejoined PolyU in 2023 as Interim Director of the Institute for Higher Education Research and Development, and then as Senior Advisor to Vice President (Education) in 2024-2025.

Prof. Mak has been very active professionally in biomedical and rehabilitation engineering, both locally and globally. He has served in the World Council on Biomechanics, International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics, the Asia-Pacific Working Group of International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) , etc. He was President of the World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers, and is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, as well as an Honorary Life Member of IFMBE.

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