Biography
Jacqueline earned her PhD from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. Her interdisciplinary research contributions led her to receive a university-wide Research Assistant Professorship in 2011, and a pioneering interdisciplinary strategic policy research grant, RGC-SPPR, for a 0.325M GBP project on cross-border nuclear safety governance, in PI capacity, in 2011. Jacqueline’s niche is her establishment of a brand new interdisciplinary discipline, namely, AI for Social Good with Victor OK Li. Together with her Cambridge collaborator, Prof. Jon Crowcroft, the trio have co-organized and hosted five consecutive AI for Social Good symposiums at HKU and Cambridge since 2018. These symposiums have fostered close collaborations and dialogues among academic researchers, policymakers, and practitioners of the field, significantly contributed to new methodologies and use cases for raising awareness and promoting the responsible and ethical use of AI for the advancement of societies. Her research in AI for Social Good has led to relevant high-impact SCI publications since 2018, which are available on Google Scholar. These publications demonstrate her commitment and capacity to ensure that AI technologies are developed and implemented with ethical considerations and social responsibility in mind. In addition to Jacqueline’s academic role at HKU, she co-directs three HKU-Cambridge research platforms with Victor OK Li, including the HKU-Cambridge Clean Energy and Environment Research Platform, HKU-Cambridge AI for Neuro-disease Research Platform, and the HKU-Cambridge AI to Advance Well-being and Society Research Platform. These roles have allowed her to extend the global impact and interdisciplinary reach of her research. Her contributions to Alzheimer’s Disease research include co-leading a team (with Victor OK Li as the PI) that won three consecutive 2021, 2022, 2023 US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award for an innovative AI and big data-driven approach to breakthrough drug discovery for Alzheimer’s disease. She also serves as a Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) on a 5M GBP RGC-Theme-based research award focused on big data for smart and personalized air pollution monitoring and health management. Jacqueline has established strong international collaborations and connections with the University of Cambridge, where she co-directs research platforms, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has held positions as a Senior Research Fellow at the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at Cambridge Judge Business School, a Visiting Academic at the Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology, a Visiting Fellow at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, a Visiting Fellow at MIT CEEPR, and a Visiting Scholar at MIT EECS.
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Selected Publications
- Bai, R., Lam, J.C.K.*, Li, V.O.K.* (2023) What dictates income in NYC? SHAP analysis of income estimation based on Socio-economic and Spatial Information Gaussian Processes (SSIG), Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
- Fan, Y.R., Lam, J.C.K.*, Li, V.O.K.* (2021) Demographic effects on facial emotion expression: an interdisciplinary investigation of the facial action units of happiness, Nature Scientific Reports.