LI Fan
Assistant Professor

Dr Fan Li (ORCID: 0000-0002-3929-6625) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE), at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR. Before joining AAE, she was a Research Fellow in Design and Human Factors Laboratory, the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Fraunhofer IDM@NTU center, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received B.Eng. Degree in the School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University, and M.Sc. Degree and Ph.D. Degree in School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2015 and 2020.
Areas of specialisation
Community service
Teaching
Academic awards
Human factors and ergonomics: Human fatigue management; Safety management systems; Human-centred design; Risk model; Non-technical skills assessment; System evaluation; Advanced technology acceptance analysis; Accident analysis.
Cognitive modelling: Eye-tracking data analytics; Eye-tracking algorithm; Bio signal data-driven systems; Artificial intelligence; Multi-source data analytics; Electroencephalography data analytics.
• 2025 – Present Council Member, The Hong Kong Ergonomics Society
• 2022 – 2023 Deputy Programme Leader of Air Transport Engineering
• 2022 – 2023 WIE Coordinator
• 2022 – 2023 JEE Undergraduate Programme Promotions in China Mainland
• 2022 – 2023 Guest Editor of <Advanced Engineering Informatics>
• 2022 – 2023 Guest Editor of <Sustainability>
• 2022 – 2023 Excellent Reviewer of <Advanced Engineering Informatics>
• 2022 – 2023 International Program Committee <International Conference on Cyberworlds >
• 2021 – 2023 Department Undergraduate Programme Committee Member
• 2021 – 2023 Board of Examiners
• 2021 – 2022 Examiner Office of AAE
• 2021 – 2022 Seminar Coordinator of AAE
• 2021 – 2022 Guest Editor of <Advanced Engineering Informatics>
• 2021 – 2022 Member of Chinese Ergonomics Society
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Human factors in aviation (undergraduate level – HK PolyU, AAE 4903);
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Capstone Project (undergraduate level – HK PolyU, AAE4002).
Best Student Paper Award, 08/2024, AHFE
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Zhang, Y., Li, F.*, Han, S., Li, D., Investigation of Potential fNIRS-based Biomarkers in Multi-Domain Virtual Reality Tasks for MCI Assessment. 2024 International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics.
Best Paper Award, 06/2022, HCII
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Khoo, N. H. L., Li, F.*, Chen, C. H., Liu, Y., Trapsilawati, F., & Sourina, O. Attention Distribution and Decision-Making in the Process of Robot’s Appearance Design and Selection. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology (WiEST) Development Grant, 2020, NTU
