Dr. Vincent W.L. Tam’s Homepage
Vincent Tam
October 18, 2019
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B.A.(Comp. Studies); M.Phil. (CS) CUHK; Ph.D. (CS) Melbourne Uni.
Fellow of the AdvanceHE (FHEA); Senior Member of the IEEE (SMIEEE) and
Faculty Member of the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Lambda Iota Chapter
Principal Lecturer and Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Hong
Kong.
- Member of the Executive Board (as the New Initiative Chair) of the IEEE
Technical Committee on Learning Technology (TCLT);
- Chairman of the IEEE (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter
(2014-2017);
- Vice-Chairman of the Senior Common Room (SCR @ HKU) (2012-2014).
1 Biography
Dr. Tam received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and
Software Engineering in the University of Melbourne in 1998 for his unprecedented
work on integrating local search based constraint solvers into constraint
logic programming. During his Ph.D. candidature, Vincent was awarded
with 3 scholarships and also a fellowship for attending the Logic Summer
School in the Australian National University. His Ph.D. research project
was directly supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) approved
research grant, and also initiated two other large-scale research projects for its
applications. From 1998 - 2001, he was an Academic Fellow in the Department of
Computer Science in the National University of Singapore (NUS) where
Vincent was the winner of the Innovative Teaching Award - 2000 among 80+
academic staff in the School of Computing (SoC), NUS. He is currently a
Principal Lecturer and also Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. Within the
department, Dr. Tam has been serving as the Director of Course Enrolment
since 2004. In 2011 and 2013, Vincent received the Faculty Best Teacher
Award and Faculty Outstanding Teaching (Team) Award in the Faculty of
Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. Later in 2017 and 2019, Vincent
won the Faculty Outstanding Teaching (Individual) Award and the Faculty
Outstanding Teaching (Team) Award. Besides, he was awarded with the
Fellowship (FHEA) of the AdvanceHE (formerly as the Higher Education
Academy).
Dr. Tam has over 110 internationally refereed publications, including 10 book
chapters, 19 journal papers and 80 conference papers. His main research interests
include big data analytics, computational finance, cloud/mobile computing, machine
learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and information visualization. Besides, Dr. Tam
is interested to apply the latest wireless and computing technologies for
developing educational software and their sound applications in e-learning. Dr.
Tam collaborates with various research/development centers in educational
technologies including the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
(CETL), Center for I.T. in Education (CITE), the EDB, the HKEdCity,
the Microsoft Research Asia, the Apple Asia, and some local schools. In
addition, Dr. Tam is active in serving various international conferences as
technical program committee members, Publication Chair, Publicity Chair, and
Workshop Chair, and also editors/reviewers for reputable journals since
2000.
Vincent serves as an Executive Board member of the IEEE Technical
Committee on Learning Technology (TCLT), the Chairman of the IEEE (HK)
Computational Intelligence Chapter, and the Vice-Chairman of the Senior
Common Room (SCR/HKU). Besides, he is a Senior Member of the IEEE
(SMIEEE) and a Faculty Member of the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Lambda Iota
Chapter. Furthermore, he is listed in the Marquis’s 9th Edition of ”Who’s
Who in Science and Engineering” (September 2006 and 2007), Who’s Who
in World (2007) and ”Who’s Who in Asia” (Premier Edition, December
2006).
2 Achievements
2.1 Teaching
- Innovative Teaching Award (2000), School of Computing, National
University of Singapore (NUS);
- Faculty Best Teacher Award (2010), Faculty of Engineering, the University
of Hong Kong (HKU);
- Faculty Outstanding Teaching Team Award (2013), Faculty of
Engineering, the University of Hong Kong (HKU);
- Faculty Outstanding Teaching (Individual) Award (2017), Faculty of
Engineering, the University of Hong Kong (HKU);
- Faculty Outstanding Teaching (Team) Award (2019), Faculty of
Engineering, the University of Hong Kong (HKU);
- Fellow of the AdvanceHE (formerly as the Higher Education Academy in
UK) (FHEA);
- Principal Investigators and Co-Investigators of 10 teaching development
projects supported by HKU;
- Principal Investigators of 2 Microsoft Research Asia supported research
projects;
- (Part-time) Deputy Project Director and Project Manager of 2
EMB-funded Projects (2006 and 2009) on Learning and Teaching Resource
Packages for ICT Electives in Hong Kong secondary schools;
- An Invited Speaker in the Apple Learning Workshop 2012 organized by
the Apple/Asia;
- An Invited Speaker in the e-Learning Korea 2014 Conference organized
by the South Korea National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA);
- An Invited Speaker in the HKIEd’s 20th Anniversary Featured Symposium
on ”Learning Analytics in Smart Learning Environments” of the Asia
Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) and the Hong Kong
Educational Research Association (HKERA) 2014.
2.2 Research
- Track Program Chairs [Coordinator] of Track 9 of the 14th IEEE
International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT
2014) and ICALT2015;
- Track Program Co-Chairs of the IEEE International Conference on
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) (2016 - 2019);
- Recipient of the Certificate of Outstanding Performance from the ICALT
2014;
- Recipient of the Best Full Paper Award of the 12th IEEE International
Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2012);
- Publication Chair of the IEEE ICTAI 2005;
- Publicity and Workshop Chairs of the 6th ACM/IEEE International
Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2012);
- Publicity Chair of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced
Learning Technologies (ICALT 2013);
- Session Chair of the International Conference on Smart Learning
Environment (ICSLE 2014);
- Serving on the Executive Board of the IEEE Technical Committee on
Learning Technology (TCLT);
- Chairman (2014 - NOW) and Activity Co-Chair (2012-13) of the IEEE
(HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter;
- An Executive Reviewer of the Journal of Educational Technology &
Society (SCCI);
- Serving on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and
Smart Environments (JAISE);
- Serving on the Advisory Board of the International Association for Smart
Learning Environments;
- A Co-Investigator (Co-I) of the RGC-funded project on Online
Game-based Learning in Formal Curriculum Teaching;
- Recipients of the Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholarship (1995),
Special Scholarship from the Key Center for Knowledge-Based Systems
(1995) and Melbourne Research Scholarship (1996 - 1998);
- Organizers of Special Workshop Sessions in the IEEE CCNC 2008 and the
IEEE ICALT 2013;
- Organizer of a Special Session in the IEEE ICDSC 2012;
- TPC members of 12 international conferences and editors/reviewers of
various reputed journals since 2000;
- Guest Editors of Special Issues in the IEEE Learning Technology
Newsletter, the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits
and Systems (JETCAS) and the Multidimensional Systems and Signal
Processing Journal (MSSP).
2.3 Knowledge Exchange / Services
- An Invited Speaker in the Mobile Computing in Education Theme
Workshop 2009 in Beijing - organized by the Microsoft Research Asia;
- An invited Speaker of the IBM CLDHK THINK CLIENTS EVENT
organized by the IBM/HK;
- Invited Speakers of 2 HKUAA-IT Seminars and 2 eLearning Workshop
Sessions in the Teaching Development Center of the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University;
- Organizer of the IEEE (HK) CI Final Year Project and Graduate Student
Papers Competition (2012 - 2014);
- Principal Investigators (PIs) of two KE Impact Projects in HKU;
- Recipient of the HKWDC Application Award (2007);
- Recipient of the Bronze Award of the ICT 2008 Awards Best Lifestyle;
- Recipient of the Silver Award of the 48-th International Exhibition of
Inventions Geneva (in collaboration with St. Paul Primary School);
- Vice-Chairman of the Senior Common Room (SCR in HKU) (2012-2014).
3 Contact
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∙ Location :
- Room 707, Chow Yei Ching (CYC) Building, Department of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong,
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.
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∙ Tel :
- (852) 3917-2697
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∙ Fax :
- (852) 2559-8738
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∙ Email :
- vtam@eee.hku.hk