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• 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

∙ Location :

Room 707, Chow Yei Ching (CYC) Building, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong.

∙ Tel :

(852) 3917-2697

∙ Fax :

(852) 2559-8738

∙ Email :

vtam@eee.hku.hk