# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/woo-chia-wei
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:50:41.850Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/woo-chia-wei"
name: "Woo Chia-wei"
slug: "woo-chia-wei"
description: "Chia-Wei Woo was a Hong Kong physicist and educator who was the inaugural president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His work included raising funding and recruiting outstanding faculty for the university. With Chung Sze Yuen, Woo created an institution, including a top-ranked Business School, known as the HKUST Business School. The school's MBA, EMBA and Executive Education programmes have been consistently ranked as Asia's top programmes, and in the World Top 50 MBA programmes by the Financial Times of London. Woo retired in 2001 after 13 years of service and remained President Emeritus as well as University Professor Emeritus."
tagline: "President of the hong Kong Institute of Science and Technology"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-11-13"
deathDate: "2025-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.19
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.153961333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B3%E5%AE%B6%E7%91%8B"
    title: "吳家瑋"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "و تشيا وى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88_%DA%86%DB%8C%D8%A7-%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "وو چیا-وی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Chia-wei"
    title: "Woo Chia-wei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88_%DA%86%DB%8C%D8%A7-%D9%88%DB%8C"
    title: "وو چیا-وی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woo_Chia-wei"
    title: "Woo Chia-wei"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B3%E5%AE%B6%E7%91%8B"
    title: "吳家瑋"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q700146"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump