| Instructor Name | Instructor Title |
|---|---|
| CHEUNG, Paul, Y.S. | Honorary Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| CHOW, K.P. | Programme Director of MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(CompSc); Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| FARHOOMAND, Ali | Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| GOEL, Mayank | Associate Professor in ISR and HCII, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| HO, Roy S.C. | Honorary Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| IANNELLA, Renato | Principal Information Architect, Australian Digital Health Agency; W3C Representative, Monegraph; Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology; Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| KWAN, Michael, Y.K. | CEO, Asia Pacific Internet Ltd; Honorary Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| LAU, Francis, C.M. | Associate Head (External Relations) (Part-time) & Honorary Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| MONTGOMERY, Alan | Professor of Marketing at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University; Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| PUN, Kevin, K.H. | Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| RAHMEL, Juergen | Visiting Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| SCHNIEDERS, Dirk | Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| SHUEN, Amy | CEO, Nanoforma; Former Professor, The Wharton School and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley; Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| TANG, Winnie, S.M. | Founder and Chairman, Esri China (Hong Kong) Limited; Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
| YEN, Benjamin | Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, HKU |
| YEUNG, Lawrence K. | Associate Programme Director of MSc(ECom&IComp); Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU |
| YIU, S.M. | Deputy Head; Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU |
CHEUNG, Paul, Y.S.
PhD, D.I.C., C.Eng., MIEE, SMIEEE
Honorary Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: paul.cheung@hku.hk
Paul Cheung is Honorary Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. He joined the University of Hong Kong in 1980 and served as Dean of Engineering from 1994-2000, and Associate Vice-President (Research) from 2012-15, Director of Technology Transfer Office and Managing Director of Versitech from 2004-2016. He was on secondment from the University to the Hong Kong Government as Policy Advisor of the Innovation and Technology Commission from 2002-04. Prior joining the Government, he was Corporate Senior Vice-President in technology, at PCCW responsible for the strategic development in technology for the Group while on leave from the University from 2000-02.
Professor Cheung received his BSc(Eng) and Ph.D. degrees from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, both in Electrical Engineering, in 1973 and 1978 respectively. His research interest and experience include biomedical engineering, computer architecture and application, signal processing & pattern recognition, E-commerce technology & the Internet and VLSI design.
He was the Asia-Pacific Region Director of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) from 1995-96, and the Institute’s Secretary in 1997, and served in many international committees. He was Chair of the IEEE Awards Board in 2007-08 and Chair of the IEEE Medal of Honor Committee in 2009-12. He was Director of the IEEE Foundation Board from 2008-14. He was the Lead Shepherd of the APEC Industry Science and Technology Working Group (ISTWG) from 2004-05. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
In his spare time, Paul is a pen-maker, a certified diver, an occasional cyclist and skier, a regular jogger, and also pretends to be a music and golf enthusiast. He started the HKU Marathon Team in 2006, which had over 2,200 members to run the 2017 Hong Kong International Marathon, and tries his best (but often fails) to keep up three sessions of gym every week.
CHOW, K.P.
MA, PhD, California, MHKIE, MISFS
Programme Director of MSc(ECom&IComp) and MSc(CompSc)
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: chow@cs.hku.hk
Dr. KP Chow began his academic career in The Department of upon completion of his doctoral degree in the United States. His first contribution was on establishing HARNET, the first academic and research network for tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. His earlier research works were in expert systems development and Chinese computing.
In the recent years, Dr. Chow's research interests have migrated to computer forensics and digital investigations, and is the leader of the Computer Forensics Research Group of CISC. He was the chief designer of the bilingual digital forensics tool, Digital Evidence Search Kit (DESK), and the Internet piracy monitoring system Lineament. Dr. Chow has been a member of the Programme Committee of the international forensics workshop SADFE and was the conference chairman of the Sixth IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics held in January 2010 in Hong Kong. In addition to forensic tool development, Dr. Chow is also interested in digital forensics and investigation research, which include live system analysis, digital evidence analysis using Bayesian model, digital crime scene reconstruction, software vulnerability analysis and has performed studies in buffer overflow techniques and prevention.
Dr. Chow is the Programme Director for the MSc in E-Commerce and Internet Computing Programme and MSc in Computer Scinece Programme at The University of Hong Kong. Dr. Chow is the chairman of the Information Security and Forensics Society (Hong Kong) and a council member of the Hong Kong Forensic Science Society.
Dr. Chow has provided consultancy and training to local organizations including Hong Kong Telecom, Hong Kong Airport Services Limited, Hewlett Packard and MPFA in the areas distributed computing, Internet technology and software quality assurance. In the past few years, Dr. Chow has been invited to be a computer forensics expert to assist the Court and give advice to counsels on understanding and interpreting digital evidence in Hong Kong.
FARHOOMAND, Ali
Beng, MBA, Concordia; PhD, McGill
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: ali@business.hku.hk
While living in Hong Kong for 25 years, Profesor Ali Farhoomand was Professor of Innovation and Information Management, and founding Directors of Asia Case Research Centre and Business Design and Innovation Program at The University of Hong Kong. He has taught and conducted research in universities across the globe, including executive development programs at Oxford, Stanford, INSEAD and as a Visiting Scholar at MIT. A three-time winner of the Society for Information Management Paper Award Ali has been a consultant to the governments as well as large companies. He has written many books, academic articles, and 160 business case studies, over half a million copies of which distributed worldwide by Harvard Business Publishing and other outlets.
Frustrated by the gap between business schools and real world, Professor Farhoomand conceived and produced the FocusAsia Business Leaders series, which was aired globally by BBC World, PBS and Asia Network.
Ali is recipient of a University-wide, as well as several MBA and Undergraduate Outstanding Teaching Awards.
GOEL, Mayank
PhD, University of Washington
Associate Professor in ISR and HCII, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email Not Provided
I am an Associate Professor in ISR and HCII in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. My research focuses on designing new sensing systems using sensors and devices that are already present in the environment. I ultimately solve hard problems in various domains, including health sensing, technologies for global development, and novel interactive systems. My inventions are currently deployed in clinics around the world and are used by several thousand patients every month. Many of these technologies are currently going through regulatory approvals. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington in 2016.
HO, Roy S.C.
MPhil & PhD, HKU
Honorary Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: scho@cs.hku.hk
Dr. Ho received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from The University of Hong Kong. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing and operating systems. Apart from academic research, he has been actively involved in R&D of distributed software systems for more than ten years. He was a main designer of the WhizzBee web server, the first cluster-based web server with an embedded cooperative caching support. He was the one from Hong Kong who won the first Google Summer of Code program where he developed two congestion control mechanisms and an API for bulk data transfer in Internet2. He has also managed consultancy projects studying the high performance computing requirements and porting the Windshear and Turbulence Warning System for the Hong Kong Observatory.
Dr. Ho enjoys teaching. He is a Unix/Linux fan, on which he has designed and implemented a low-latency transport protocol, a parallel disk I/O subsystem, and a fast process migration support apart from using it as his desktop OS.
IANNELLA, Renato
PhD, Bond University
Principal Information Architect, Australian Digital Health Agency
W3C Representative, Monegraph
Adjunct Professor, Queensland University of Technology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: renato@hku.hk
Renato is the Principal Information Architect at Australian Digital Health Agency. Renato’s experience covers Enterprise Information & Data Architecture, Semantic Web & Linked Data, Social Media, Rights and Privacy Management, and Data Governance which he consults to industry and government.
Renato is an active member and chair of numerous standards groups in web technologies and was a former member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Board. He holds adjunct professorship positions at both Queensland University of Technology and the University of Hong Kong.
Renato was previously Head of Innovation and Emerging Technologies at KnowledgeFlux, Lead Information and Policy Architect at National eHealth Authority (NEHTA), Principal Researcher & Group Manager at the National ICT Australia (NICTA), Head Information Architect at IPR Systems, and Principal Scientist at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC).
KWAN, Michael, Y.K.
PhD, HKU
CEO, Asia Pacific Internet Ltd
Honorary Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: ykkwan@cs.hku.hk
Michael Kwan is the CEO of Asia Pacific Internet Ltd.
Michael has been involving in technology crime investigation and digital forensics since 2000. He was the commander of the Computer Forensic Laboratory of the Hong Kong Customs, responsible for the retrieval of digital evidence at the scene of crime and subsequent digital forensic analyses for court purposes. Before leaving the government, Michael was the Superintendent of the Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau of the Hong Kong Customs, overseeing criminal enforcement on intellectual property protection, including on-line and hi-tech intellectual property crime investigations.
Michael has obtained a BSc degree in Computer Science and two MSc degrees, in Forensic Investigation and in Telecommunications. He also accredited with a PhD degree from the University of Hong Kong. His research area is in cyber crime investigations and digital forensics.
LAU, Francis, C.M.
M.Math and PhD, Waterloo University
Associate Head (External Relations) (Part-time) & Honorary Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: fcmlau@cs.hku.hk
Professor Lau received his BSc in CS from Acadia, and his MMath and PhD in CS from Waterloo. He joined the Department of Computer Science, HKU in 1987 and served as the department head from 2000 to 2005. He is interested in systems research (both practical and theoretical), and the application of computing to arts, in particular music.
Professor Lau is an active member of the IEEE Computer Society. He pioneered the society's Distinguished Visitors Program for Asia/Pacific in 1993. He served on the society's board of governors in 1998, as a member-at-large of the Publications Board, and then as vice president for chapters activities in 1999. He was a member of the society's Technical Activities Board, in charge of Asian technical activities, and was a core member of the ACM-IEEE/CS Joint Task Force on Curriculum 2001. He received a Golden Core recognition in 1998 and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000 for outstanding achievements and contributions to the IEEE Computer Society.
In Hong Kong, Professor Lau has served as a member of the engineering panel of the Research Grant Council, a member of the vetting committee of the Innovation and Technology Fund, and a member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers' accreditation committee for computer science programmes.
Professor Lau's research interests include parallel and distributed computing, wireless networking, cluster and grid computing, cloud computing, pervasive computing, computer music, and Internet and the web. He has written many journal and conference papers, and is a co-author of two books. Professor Lau is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN), and on the editorial boards of several international journals. Professor Lau has been invited to give keynote addresses in various international conferences.
MONTGOMERY, Alan
MBA and PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago
Professor of Marketing at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: alm3@andrew.cmu.edu
Professor Alan L. Montgomery received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Business from the University of Chicago in 1994. Since 1999 he has been a professor of marketing at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, and has taught courses in eMarketing, Pricing, Business Analytics and Data Science. Additionally, he is a faculty in the Machine Learning Department in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously, he was an assistant professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
His fields of interest include electronic commerce, the analysis of clickstream data, micro-marketing, pricing, and data mining. Professor Montgomery's research on electronic commerce has recently focused on how to predict browsing patterns and purchase conversion for online consumers using clickstream data. Some current research projects include user profiling, the design of shopbots, creating self-organizing marketplaces with peer-to-peer systems, customization of pricing strategies to micro-markets, automated approaches to the analysis of sales data, new methodologies for estimating consumer price sensitivity, and forecasting time series using non-linear models.
PUN, Kevin, K.H.
MS, PhD (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); LLB, LLM (Intellectual Property) (London); PCLL (HK); Barrister-at-Law
Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: pun@cs.hku.hk
With a unique background in computer science and law, Dr Pun is an expert on legal issues arising from information technology and electronic commerce. He is the pioneer of the course "Legal Aspects of Computing" in the Computer Science Department, the first of its kind in Asia when it was launched in 1993. He is a seven-time recipient of the Department's Teaching Excellence Award. In 2002, he became the first teacher in the Engineering Faculty to receive the honour of University Teaching Fellow for his teaching excellence and contributions to university education. From 2002 to 2014, he was a founding co-director of the Law & Technology Centre jointly established by the Department and the Law Faculty. He had also taught in the Law Department during 2000-2011, lecturing in intellectual property law and information technology law.
Dr Pun is the author of Software and Copyright (Joint Publishing Hong Kong, 1996, in Chinese), the first book on the subject of copyright protection for computer software in Hong Kong, and Annotated Patents Ordinance (Butterworths, 2005). His other academic works have appeared in journals including European Intellectual Property Review, Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, Intellectual Property Quarterly, International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law and Hong Kong Law Journal. He has been interviewed and invited to speak on many occasions regarding intellectual property and information technology issues.
Dr Pun was called to the Hong Kong Bar in 1999. He had appeared as counsel in cases involving copyright, registered design, trademark, passing-off, patent, trade libel, contract, conveyancing, adverse possession, company matters and employment disputes. He was the defence counsel before the Court of Final Appeal in Chan Nai Ming v HKSAR [2007] 3 HKC 255, the first criminal case in the world concerning the use of BitTorrent on the Internet. From 2007 to 2013, he was appointed by the Chief Executive as a member of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages (Enforcement Notices) Appeal Board, a statutory body constituted under the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Ordinance (Cap. 593).
Dr Pun retired from his full time position at the Computer Science Department in July 2016. He is currently an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department teaching at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as a private legal consultant providing advice to law firms, corporate bodies and individual clients.
RAHMEL, Juergen
MBA, University of London; PhD, University of Kaiserslautern
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: juergen@hku.hk
Dr. Juergen Rahmel holds a PhD in computer science (Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks) from University of Kaiserslautern in Germany and an MBA in International Management from University of London.
He started his career with Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, has worked in various IT management positions of different banks and has transferred for HSBC from Germany to Hong Kong in 2010.
Juergen is a part-time university lecturer on a variety of subjects, including for example Information Security, eCommerce, Enterprise Resource Planning, Securities Transaction Banking, and eFinancial Services.
In parallel, Juergen started his own company where he coaches individuals or groups on business-related IT matters, academic writing and other related subjects. One endeavour particularly close to his heart is the education of children (and adults - they need it too...) in Internet safety for them to become self-confident digital citizens.
Having been a swimmer and water polo player in some distant past, Juergen tries to regularly hit the HK pools and running tracks in order not to become a sitting duck or even sinking duck.
SCHNIEDERS, Dirk
MSc & PhD, HKU
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: sdirk@cs.hku.hk
Dr Dirk Schnieders received his MSc and PhD in Computer Science from The University of Hong Kong in 2007 and 2011. Currently, he is a Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong.
Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
SHUEN, Amy
B.S. Yale (Double Major Engineering and English Literature); MBA Harvard Business School; PhD UC Berkeley
CEO, Nanoforma
Former Professor, The Wharton School and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: amy@amyshuen.com
Professor Amy Shuen is a digital economist and Silicon Valley strategist teaching Web 2.0 entrepreneurship.
Her teaching sparks high energy classroom discussions and exciting hands-on group projects. As an extreme sports enthusiast and musician, she often uses metaphors from kiteboarding and jazz. "If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space" ... J.Whittaker, Everest climber.
She draws upon her experience as
- former faculty at Berkeley, Wharton, CEIBS
- Silicon Valley consulting partner, guiding a 300-consultant strategy firm
- Corporate venture capitalist, raising and investing a $100M fund
Her book on Web 2.0 Strategy is published by O'Reilly Media in 7 languages, her Dynamic Capabilities article is one of the most cited in the strategic management field.
TANG, Winnie, S.M.
PhD, HKU
Founder and Chairman, Esri China (Hong Kong) Limited
Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: wsmtang@hku.hk
Dr Winnie Tang JP is one of the locally-bred IT entrepreneurs of Hong Kong. She has over 20 years of experience in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry. She is the Founder and Chairman of Esri China (Hong Kong) Limited, an international office of Esri which specializes in Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, and is among the top 50 software companies in the world.
Dr Tang is a pioneer in bringing Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to benefit the public and private sectors in Hong Kong. Over the years, she has been actively advocating the use of technology and sharing her views on the ICT industry, eHealth, environmental conservation, entrepreneurship and the smart city through her services in government and non-government organisations in Hong Kong.
As a renowned columnist and keynote speaker, she has been invited to share her views and promote technological and social developments at conferences, seminars and workshops organised by international organisations, such as the World Bank Group, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Asian Productivity Organization (APO). She has published 12 Chinese and English books and over 600 research papers, newspaper articles and journals.
Dr Tang’s Chinese book, Surfing the IT World, published in 2016, won the publishing award (the category of Commerce and Management) in the first Hong Kong Publishing Biennial Awards 2017.
Major appointments that Dr Tang currently holds include: Founder and Honorary President of Smart City Consortium; Advisor of Our Hong Kong Foundation; Member of Computer Science Advisory Committee, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong (HKU); Member of ICT Services Advisory Committee, Hong Kong Trade Development Council; and Director of Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN).
In recognition of Dr Tang's outstanding contributions to society, she was recognised as one the Distinguished Alumni by the Faculty of Science of HKU in 2009. In the same year, she was also appointed as Justice of the Peace (JP) by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR Government. In 2006, Dr Tang was recognised as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons by the Junior Chamber International Hong Kong (JCIHK). In 2004, Dr Tang received the Young Achiever of the Year in the Women of Influence Award presented by the American Chamber of Commerce.
YEN, Benjamin
BS, National Chiao Tung University; MS, MPhil & PhD, Columbia University, SMIEEE, SMIIE
Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, HKU
Email: benyen@hku.hk
Dr. Benjamin Yen is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Hong Kong. He received his B.S. degree in computer science and information engineering from National Chiao Tung University. He also holds M.S. degree in computer science and both MPhil and PhD. degrees in industrial engineering and operations research from Columbia University. His research interests include electronic catalogs, IT-based supply chain management, Web information retrieval, and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Dr. Yen has collaborated with international companies in the U.S. and Asia, such as Siemens, Bell Labs, Daran Eastman, etc.
He has papers published in major information system and operations research journals including Information & Management, Electronic Commerce Research Journal, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Electronic Markets, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Information Processing Letters, Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operations Research, etc.
YEUNG, Lawrence K.
B.Eng & PhD, CUHK; SMIEEE
Associate Programme Director of MSc(ECom&IComp)
Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Email: kyeung@eee.hku.hk
Professor Lawrence Yeung received his B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Information Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong in July 2000, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Before that, he has spent five years in the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor. During the summer of 1993, Professor Yeung served with the Performance Analysis Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories (now Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies), Holmdel, USA, as a Member of Technical Staff-I. Professor Yeung's research interests include personal and cellular mobile systems, lightwave networks, broadband packet switches, high-speed networking and the next generation Internet.
Professor Yeung is a regular technical reviewer for many international journals and conferences, and a regular reviewer of CERG grant applications. He has served on technical committees of several international conferences. Most recently, he was the representative of IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications (TCPC) in the technical committee of International conference on Communications 2000 (ICC 2000), New Orleans, USA. Professor Yeung has published over 70 papers in international journals and conferences. He was ranked First Place in 1993 IEEE (HK) Student Paper Contest (postgraduate). He has been listed in Marquis Who’' Who in the World and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He was also recognized as an Outstanding Teacher in the academic year 1998-99, at the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong.
YIU, S.M.
BSc CUHK; MS Temple University; PhD HKU
Deputy Head
Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU
Email: smyiu@cs.hku.hk
Professor Yiu received a BSc in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a MS in Computer and Information Science from Temple University, and a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Hong Kong. He received two research output prizes, one from the department in 2013 and one from the faculty in 2006. He was selected for Outstanding Teaching Award by the University in 2009, the Teaching Excellence Award in the Department in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2010. He also received the Best Teacher Award of the Faculty of Engineering twice (2005 and 2009). Before he joined the Department as a faculty member, he has worked as an Analyst Programmer for a couple of years. Besides basic research, he has been involving in various industrial projectsinvolved in quite a number of industrial projects.