Edmund Y. Lam — Biography

Edmund Y. Lam received the B.S. degree (with distinction) in 1995, the M.S. degree in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in 2000, all in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He was the 49th Ph.D. graduate of Prof. Joseph W. Goodman.

At Stanford, he conducted research for the Programmable Digital Camera project in the Information Systems Laboratory. He also consulted for industry in the areas of digital camera systems design and algorithms development. After brief stints in Silicon Valley start-ups, he joined the Reticle and Photomask Inspection Division (RAPID) of KLA-Tencor Corporation in San Jose, CA, as a senior imaging engineer. He was primarily involved in the design of defect detection tools for the core die-to-die and die-to-database inspections. The product received a Semiconductor International Editor’s Choice Best Product Award, in addition to capturing a substantial market share.

He is now an Associate Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a Co-Director of the Computer Engineering program at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the founding director of its Imaging Systems Laboratory.

During the 2010–11 academic year, he taught at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Visiting Associate Professor.

He has broad research interests around the theme of computational optics and imaging, particularly its applications in semiconductor manufacturing and biomedical systems. To date, he has published around 170 articles, and graduated 7 Ph.D. and 9 Master students. A couple of his papers were given best paper awards, including the First ASML/Cymer Best Student Paper Award in the SPIE Lithography Asia conference, and he received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award of the University of Hong Kong in 2008. With regards to teaching, he has taught at all levels of the departmental courses, and has been involved in the organization and teaching of a general education course for several years. He was award an engineering Best Teacher Award in 2011.

Besides his involvement within the university, he is also a topical editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America A, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and has been guest editors for the Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing journal (Springer) and Journal of Electronic Imaging (SPIE). He is active in conference organizations, serving as a program committee member of many conferences over the years. These include OSA’s Signal Recovery and Synthesis meeting, of which he is the 2011 program chair, and the SPIE conference on Image Processing: Machine Vision Applications, of which he is the conference chair from 2012 to 2015. He is a senior member of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE. He currently serves as an honorary advisor of the IEEE EMBS Hong Kong Chapter and a member of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Technical Committee.

He is also a fellow of the Hong Kong Christian Scholarship Forum, and a contributor to iQuest.

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