Prof. Victor O.K. LI

Director, AI-WiSe
Chair of Information Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Cheng Yu-Tung Professorship in Sustainable development

Prof. Victor O.K. Li was born and raised in Hong Kong. He joined the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, California, USA in February 1981, and became Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the USC Communication Sciences Institute. Since September 1997 he has been with the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong, where he is Chair Professor of Information Engineering. He served as Assoc. Dean of Engineering at HKU from 2007 to 2012.

Dr. Jacqueline C.K. LAM

Co-Director, AI-WiSe
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, EPRG, Judge Business School, Cambridge

Dr. Jacqueline LAM received her PhD from Centre of Urban Planning and Environment Management, Faculty of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. At present, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. She is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in EPRG, Judge Business School, at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests cover clean energy and environment interdisciplinary study, particularly focusing on smart energy, and air pollution-related policy and behavioral studies that interface with engineering studies.

Prof. John BACON-SHONE

Professor
Associate Dean (Knowledge Exchange)
Faculty of Social Sciences

Prof. John Bacon-Shone is Associate Dean (Knowledge Exchange) of Social Sciences, Director of the Social Sciences Research Centre and Professor at The University of Hong Kong. Previously, he served two terms as elected Dean of Social Sciences and was a member of the Statistics Department in The University of Hong Kong. Prof. Bacon-Shone was educated at the University of Birmingham (PhD), University College London (MSc) and the University of Durham (BSc). He was headhunted to be a full-time Member of the Central Policy Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government from 1998 to 2001. His current research interests encompass a wide range of topics including compositional data, gambling, immigration and population policy, privacy policy and telephone survey methodology.

Dr. Reynold C.K. CHENG

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science

Dr. Reynold Cheng is the Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science in the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He received his BEng (Computer Engineering) in 1998, and MPhil (Computer Science and Information Systems) in 2000 from HKU. He then obtained his MSc and PhD degrees from Department of Computer Science of Purdue University in 2003 and 2005. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, ACM SIGMOD, and UPE. He has served on the program committees and review panels for leading database conferences and journals like SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, and TODS. His research interests include database management, as well as querying and mining of uncertain data.

Ir K.P. CHEUNG

Associate Professor
Department of Architecture

Ir Cheung studied mechanical engineering and stared his profession in air-conditioning and building services engineering. He then pursued further studies on fire safety engineering, and worked as a consulting engineer on fire engineering and integrated design for building services. After 12 years of professional engineering work, Ir Cheung decided to develop more into research of fire engineering and innovative building services design by joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1988. Ir Cheung joined Department of Architecture, HKU in 1992 on the interest of researching further into integration of building services design with architecture. Ir Cheung has published extensively and won prizes in building design competitions. Ir Cheung is the inventor of 3 patents on fire safety and solar study tools for buildings.

Dr. Wilton W.T. FOK

Principal Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Assistant Dean of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Director, e-Learning Development Laboratory

Dr. Fok is a Chartered Engineer and he received his B.Eng degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 1993. Dr. Fok also received two other M.Sc. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Environmental Management from this University in 1996 and 1999 respectively. In 1998 and 2007, he also awarded a MBA degree and a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge and Renmin University of China respectively.

Dr. Fok is the Convener of the Sichuan Reconstruction Project since 2009. He led students to Sichuan to serve in school reconstruction projects. He also supervised the e-Learning Development Laboratory which has developed many innovative e-learning technologies and won a few Hong Kong ICT Awards since 2011. Dr. Fok received the Best Teacher Award in 2010, Outstanding Teaching Team Award in 2013, Knowledge Exchange Award in 2014 and Outstanding Teaching Award in 2015.

Prof. James LAM

Professor
Chair Professor of Control Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor Lam obtained the MPhil and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge. He is a Croucher Scholar, Croucher Fellow, Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and Cheung Kong Chair Professor. He is now the Chair Professor of Control Engineering, at the University of Hong Kong. Professor Lam is the Editor-in-Chief of IET Control Theory and Applications and Journal of The Franklin Institute and Subject Editor of Journal of Sound and Vibration. His research interests include model reduction, robust synthesis, delay, singular systems, stochastic systems, multidimensional systems, positive systems, networked control systems, UAVs, and vibration control. He is a Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering (Thomson Reuters, 2014, 2015, 2016) and Computer Science (Thomson Reuters, 2015).

Prof. Henry Y.K. LAU

Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Assistant Dean of Engineering (Innovation)

Prof. Lau's research interest includes virtual and augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. He is also interested in the design and evaluation of automated material handling systems using computer simulation. He leads the devlopment of the imseCAVE VR system with researchers at the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering.

Prior to joining The University of Hong Kong in 1997, Henry was a Senior Systems Engineers at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the AEA Technology plc. specializing in tele-robotics systems and advanced automation systems for the nuclear industry. While working in UK, Prof. Lau was a Visiting College Lecturer at Brasenose College, Oxford University teaching Engineering Science.

Prof. Dennis Y.C. LEUNG

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Leung received his B.Sc. (Eng.) and Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. He worked five years at the Hongkong Electric Co. Ltd. as an environmental engineer before joining HKU in 1993 as a lecturer in Environmental Engineering. He is currently a Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering , publishing over 100 peer reviewed journal papers in the field of air pollution control, dispersion modelling and energy conversion. Prof. Leung is the Past Chairman of the Institute of Energy (HK Branch) and a committee member of the HKIE Gas & Energy Division and IMechE (HK Branch). He is also a chartered and registered professional engineer, a fellow of IMechE and Energy Institute. He is a Regional editor of the Journal of Global Environment Engineering and an editorial board member of the international journal Applied Energy. He also acts as an external examiner for the Higher Diploma in Mechanical Engineering of IVE (Tsing Yi) and a board member of the Friends of the Earth (HK) and the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency.

Dr. Y.C. WU

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Dr. Wu received the B.Eng. (EEE) degree in 1998 and the M.Phil. degree in 2001 from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He received the Croucher Foundation scholarship in 2002 to study Ph.D. degree at Texas A&M University, College Station, and graduated in 2005. From August 2005 to August 2006, he was with the Thomson Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, as a Member of Technical Staff. Since September 2006, he has been with HKU, currently as an Associate Professor. He was a visiting scholar at Princeton University, in summers of 2011 and 2015.

His research interests are in general areas of machine learning, signal processing and communication systems, and in particular distributed signal processing, Bayesian inference and optimization theories. Dr. Wu served as an Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, is currently an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and Journal of Communications and Networks. He was a TPC member for over 50 IEEE major conferences. He received three best paper awards in international conferences. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Dr. S.M. YIU

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

Dr. 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. 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. His research interests are Computer Security, Crytography, and Bioinformatics.