Twelve of Lingnan University’s leading scholars have been recognised in the 2024 ScholarGPS Rankings, putting them among the top 0.5 per cent of scholars worldwide. This welcome acknowledgement by ScholarGPS, the international academic analysis platform, commends the outstanding achievements of Lingnan scholars, and highlights the university's commitment to supporting innovative academic research.

The Lingnan recipients honoured are:

• Prof S. Joe Qin, President and Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science, for “Overall (All Fields) Lifetime” and “Overall (All Fields) Prior 5 Years”
• Prof Raymond Chan Hon-fu, Vice-President (Academics) cum Provost and Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Scientific Computing, for “Overall (All Fields) Lifetime”
• Prof Xin Yao, Vice-President (Research and Innovation) and Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of Machine Learning, for “Overall (All Fields) Lifetime” and “Overall (All Fields) Prior 5 Years”
• Prof Sam Kwong Tak-wu, Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research) and J.K. Lee Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence, for “Overall (All Fields) Lifetime” and “Overall (All Fields) Prior 5 Years”
• Prof Chen Xi, Dean and Chair Professor of School of Interdisciplinary Studies, for “Overall (All Fields) Lifetime” and “Overall (All Fields) Prior 5 Years”
• Prof Richard M. Walker, Head and Chair Professor of the Department of Government and International Affairs and Director of the Lingnan University Institute for Advanced Study, for “Overall (All Fields) Lifetime”  
• Prof Darrell Patrick Rowbottom, Professor of the Department of Philosophy and RGC Senior Research Fellow, for “Arts and Humanities Lifetime”
• Prof Xie Haoran, Associate Dean of the School of Data Science and Professor of the Division of Artificial Intelligence, for “Overall (All Fields) Prior 5 Years”
• Prof Tang Xiaopeng, Assistant Professor (Presidential Early Career Scholar) of the Science Unit, for “Overall (All Fields) Prior 5 Years”
• Prof Yuan Weijie, Assistant Professor (Presidential Early Career Scholar) of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, for “Overall (All Fields) Prior 5 Years”
• Prof Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Research Assistant Professor of the School of Graduate Studies, for “Overall (All Fields) Prior 5 Years”
• Prof Guo Ying, Assistant Professor of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, for “Overall (All Fields) Prior 5 Years”.

ScholarGPS, renowned for its quantitative rankings, evaluates scholars across 14 broad fields, 177 disciplines, and over 350,000 specialities, using metrics such as research productivity, citation impact, and h-index. This year's rankings are based on the ScholarGPS database of over 30 million scholar profiles and 120,000 institutional profiles.