Dr. Li Cheng is Chair Professor and Associate Dean (Research) of Faculty of Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was a Full Professor at Laval University, Canada before joining Hong Kong PolyU in 2000. He was the Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2011 to 2014. Dr. Cheng published extensively in the field of sound and vibration, structural health monitoring, smart structures and fluid-structure interaction.

Dr. Cheng currently serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Sound and Vibration, Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Associate Editor of Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal and an editorial board member of a few other journals. Dr. Cheng is an elected Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a Fellow of Acoustical Society of China etc. He was the President of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He is the President-elect of the I-INCE (International Institutes of Noise Control Engineering).