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Professional Achievements and Services

Professional Qualifications and Memberships

  1. Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) -Computer & Neural Network Societies, Member: 1986–2008; Senior Member: 2008–present
  2. Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Member: 1996–present.
  3. Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), Fellow: 2012–present.
  4. International Neural Network Society (INNS), Member: 1994–1998; 2009–present.
  5. Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA), Member: 1994–present.
  6. Hong Kong Society for Multimedia and Image Computing (HKSMIC), Member: June 1997–present.
  7. International Society for Optical Engineering, SPIE, Member: June 1997–present.
  8. International Who's Who of Professionals, 1997–1998, 2010-2011.
  9. New York Academy of Sciences, Member 1995–1997.

International and Regional

  1. Member, Review Panel of the Natural Science, and Engineering of Academy of Finland, March 2010
  2. Member of Review Panel of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), December 2010
  3. Board Member, Board of Governors, International Neural Network Society (INNS), February 2010–Pressent
  4. Vice-President, Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA), October 2006–Present
  5. Governing Board Member, Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA), October 1996–Present
  6. Member, CIS Outstanding Chapter Award Subcommittee, 2010
  7. Technical Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Neural Networks Technical Committee, 2005–Present
  8. Technical Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Data Mining Technical Committee, 2007–Present
  9. Apple Distinguished Educator, Apple Learning Exchange, 2008–Present

Editorial Board & Journal Editorship

  1. Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (ACM TKDD), 2011–present.
  2. Associate Editor of INNS Natural Intelligence Magazine (INNS NIM), 2011–present.
  3. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (TNN), 2007–2011.
  4. Advisory Board, Springer Book Series Bio- Neuroinformatics, July 2011–2014.
  5. Advisory Board, Springer's Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, May 2011.
  6. Section Co-editor, Springer's Handbook of Bio and Neuroinformations (HBNI), December 2010.
  7. Editorial Advisory Board, Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications, IGI Global, January 2010.
  8. Editorial Board, Web Intelligence and Web Science (WIWS), Higher Education Press, China, September 2010.
  9. Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue in the Journal of Information Science and Engineering (JISE), January 2010.
  10. Editorial Advisory Board, ICT Ethics and Security in the 21st Century: New Developments and Applications, IGI Global, November 2009.
  11. Editorial Board, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (IJICC) [ alternate site ] by Emerald
  12. Editorial Board, The Open Information Systems Journal
  13. Editorial Board, Neural Information Processing-Letters & Review (NIP-LR)
  14. Editorial Board, Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics, JNAAM


  1. Special Issue Guest Editor, Twitter and Microblogging Services, ACM Transactions on Intelligent System and Technology (TIST), 2011-2012
  2. Special Issue Guest Editor, Special issue on advances in web intelligence, Neurocomputing, 2011
  3. Special Issue Guest Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (IJICC), 2008
  4. Associate Guest Editor, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), 2007
  5. Special Issue Guest Editor, Neurocomputing, 2007
  6. Special Issue Guest Editor, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2007
  7. Special Issue Guest Editor, International Journal of Computational Intelligent Research (IJCIR), 2006

International Conference Involvements

By Date

  1. Panel Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2009), Atlanta, Georgia
  2. Program Committee Member, Search Track, World Wide Web (WWW2009), Madrid, Spain
  3. Program Committee Member, Tutorial Track, World Wide Web (WWW2009), Madrid, Spain
  1. General Co-Chair, Beijing-Hong Kong doctroal Forum 2008, Beijing, China
  2. Workshop Chair, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2008), Auckland, New Zealand
  3. Session Chair, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2008), Napa Valley, USA
  4. Panel Session Chair, Hong Kong International Computer Conference 2008, Hong Kong
  5. Workshop Chair, World Wide Web (WWW2008), Beijing, China
  6. Program Committee Member, Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2008), Crete, Greece
  7. Workshop Chair, World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI2008)
  8. Referee, Track 2: Pattern Recognition, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2008)
  1. Technical Co-Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2007)
  2. Technical Track Co-Chair, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM2007)
  3. General Co-Chair, Beijing-Hong Kong Doctoral Forum 2007, Hong Kong
  4. Program Committee Member, ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2007)
  5. Program Committee Member, IEEE Multimedia Expo (ICME2007)
  6. Program Committee Member, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM2007)
  7. Program Committee Member, VISUAL2007
  8. Program Committee Member, International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering And Learning (IDEAL2007)
  9. Program Committee Member, Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB2007)
  1. Program Chair, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2006)
  2. Organizing Chair, ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications (VRCIA2006)
  3. Program Committee Member, ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications (VRCIA2006)

By Conference

  1. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM): 2008, 2009
  2. ACM Multimedia (ACM MM): 2005, 2007, 2009
  3. ACM SIGIR: 2009
  4. ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM): 2010
  5. Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML): 2009
  6. Australian AI: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
  7. IEEE Multimedia Expo (ICME): 2005, 2007
  8. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2009
  9. International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
  10. IJCNN or WCCI: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
  11. VISUAL: 2007
  12. Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM): 2007
  13. Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB): 2006, 2007
  14. World Wide Web (WWW) Conference: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010

Reviewer/Referee

  1. ACM SIGMOD
  2. IEEE Signal Processing Letter (IEEE SPL): 2006
  3. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  4. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (IEEE TCAS)
  5. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE)
  6. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM)
  7. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (IEEE TNN)
  8. IEEE Transactions Parallel and Distributed System (IEEE TPDS): 2006
  9. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE PAMI): 2006, 2007
  10. IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B (IEEE SMC-B)
  11. Information Fusion
  12. International Journal of Computer Vision
  13. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI)
  14. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR): 2006
  15. Machine Vision and Applications
  16. Pattern Recognition: 2008
  17. Pattern Recognition Letter
  18. Real-Time Imaging
  19. SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging
  20. Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering

Hong Kong

  1. Member of Joint Research Scheme ( JRS) Panel under RGC, The Hong Kong SAR Government, 2012–2014
  2. Member, Engineering Panel, Research Grants Councils (RGC), Hong Kong SAR Government, 2005–2011.
  3. Panel Member, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)/Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Joint Research Scheme Joint Selection Committee, 2006–2007
  4. Chair, Task Force on External Reviewers Database, Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), 2006–2007
  5. Member, Public Policy Grant Panel Member, Research Grants Councils (RGC), Hong Kong SAR Government, 2006–2007.
  6. Convener, External Reviewer Database Task Force, Research Grants Councils (RGC), Hong Kong SAR Government, 2006–Present.
  7. Member, Executive Committee of the IEEE (Hong Kong) Computer Chapter, 1998.
  8. Reviewer, RGC Earmarked Grants
  9. External Examiner, The Open University of Hong Kong, 2005–Present
  10. Member, Continuing Education Committee, YMCA of Hong Kong, 2004–-Present
  11. Chair, Information Technology and Teaching Facilities Committee (ITTFC), YMCA Committee on Continuing Education, 2009–Present.
  12. External Assessor, Hong Kong Applied R~\&~D Fund Co. Ltd., August 1994.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  1. Principal Investigator, Chief Technologist and Co-Founder, The VeriGuide System, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004–Present

Engineering Faculty

  1. Member, Engineering Faculty Board, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1 August 2009 to 31 July 2011
  2. Director, Engineering International Programmes (ERGIP), Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004–Present
  3. Member, Faculty Curriculum Committee, 2006–2009
  4. Member, Committee on Teaching and Learning, 2007–2009
  5. Member, Academic Committee, CUHK MoE-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Human-Centric Computing and Interface Technologies, 2008–Present
  6. Member of the Faculty Board, August 2001 – July 2007; August 2009–present.
  7. Member of the Working Committee of the Innovative Technology Fair 1999, April 30-May 1, 1999, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  8. Chairperson of the Faculty Library Committee, 1994 – 2004.
  9. Member, Working Group for the Opening of Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building (November 1993 – January 1994).
  10. Working Group on the Proficiency of English Language (August 1993).
  11. Category (d) Member of Board/Committee of Studies (August 1993)

New Asia College

  1. Member, General Education Committee, 1996–present.
  2. Member, New Asia Staff Association Committee, 2002-2004.
  3. Computer Science \& Engineering Coordinator for the New Asia College, 1996, 2001.
  4. Instructor, STOT General Education Class, September 1993 (10); September 1996 (19), 1999, 2002, 2006, 2009.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  1. Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006–Present
  2. Chair, Accreditation Task Force, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2008–2009
  3. Representative, University General Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007–Present
  1. Member, Programme Review Task Force, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2006–2007
  2. Member, EXCO, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2006–2007
  3. Coach, ACM Inter-Collegiate Programming Contest Team, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2000–2007
  4. Member, Graduate Panel, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2002–2006
  5. Chair, Library Committee, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 1993–2003
  6. Member, Computer User Group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2005–2006