Professor and Associate Dean (Education)
FHKIE
- Division Head, Graduate Division of Financial Technology
- Associate Dean of Students, New Asia College
Biography
Jimmy Lee graduated on the Dean’s Honours List with an Honours BMath degree, majoring both in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1987. He read his MMath degree in Computer Science in 1988 also from Waterloo. Jimmy then moved to the University of Victoria, Canada, and completed his doctoral study in 1992 under the supervision of Maarten van Emden in the area of constraint logic programming. During his graduate studies, he was involved in research projects funded by IBM (Canada) and the Canadian Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems. Upon graduation, Jimmy returned to Hong Kong and joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is now Associate Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Engineering, Division Head of the Graduate Division of Financial Technology, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. He is member of The Council, CUHK, and the Board of Trustees, New Asia College. He was Assistant Dean during 2018-19, Graduate Division Head of Computer Science during 2008-11 and in charge of the Department’s curricula and Teaching and Learning matters during 2011-14.