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Professional Achievements and Services
Professional Qualifications and Memberships
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) -Computer & Neural Network Societies, Member: 1986–2008; Senior Member: 2008–present
- Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Member: 1996–present.
- Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), Fellow: 2012–present.
- International Neural Network Society (INNS), Member: 1994–1998; 2009–present.
- Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA), Member: 1994–present.
- Hong Kong Society for Multimedia and Image Computing (HKSMIC), Member: June 1997–present.
- International Society for Optical Engineering, SPIE, Member: June 1997–present.
- International Who's Who of Professionals, 1997–1998, 2010-2011.
- New York Academy of Sciences, Member 1995–1997.
International and Regional
- Member, Review Panel of the Natural Science, and Engineering of Academy of Finland, March 2010
- Member of Review Panel of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), December 2010
- Board Member, Board of Governors, International Neural Network Society (INNS), February 2010–Pressent
- Vice-President, Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA), October 2006–Present
- Governing Board Member, Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA), October 1996–Present
- Member, CIS Outstanding Chapter Award Subcommittee, 2010
- Technical Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Neural Networks Technical Committee, 2005–Present
- Technical Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Data Mining Technical Committee, 2007–Present
- Apple Distinguished Educator, Apple Learning Exchange, 2008–Present
Editorial Board & Journal Editorship
- Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (ACM TKDD), 2011–present.
- Associate Editor of INNS Natural Intelligence Magazine (INNS NIM), 2011–present.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (TNN), 2007–2011.
- Advisory Board, Springer Book Series Bio- Neuroinformatics, July 2011–2014.
- Advisory Board, Springer's Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, May 2011.
- Section Co-editor, Springer's Handbook of Bio and Neuroinformations (HBNI), December 2010.
- Editorial Advisory Board, Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications, IGI Global, January 2010.
- Editorial Board, Web Intelligence and Web Science (WIWS), Higher Education Press, China, September 2010.
- Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue in the Journal of Information Science and Engineering (JISE), January 2010.
- Editorial Advisory Board, ICT Ethics and Security in the 21st Century: New Developments and Applications, IGI Global, November 2009.
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (IJICC) [ alternate site ] by Emerald
- Editorial Board, The Open Information Systems Journal
- Editorial Board, Neural Information Processing-Letters & Review (NIP-LR)
- Editorial Board, Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and Applied Mathematics, JNAAM
- Special Issue Guest Editor, Twitter and Microblogging Services, ACM Transactions on Intelligent System and Technology (TIST), 2011-2012
- Special Issue Guest Editor, Special issue on advances in web intelligence, Neurocomputing, 2011
- Special Issue Guest Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (IJICC), 2008
- Associate Guest Editor, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), 2007
- Special Issue Guest Editor, Neurocomputing, 2007
- Special Issue Guest Editor, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2007
- Special Issue Guest Editor, International Journal of Computational Intelligent Research (IJCIR), 2006
International Conference Involvements
By Date
- Panel Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2009), Atlanta, Georgia
- Program Committee Member, Search Track, World Wide Web (WWW2009), Madrid, Spain
- Program Committee Member, Tutorial Track, World Wide Web (WWW2009), Madrid, Spain
- General Co-Chair, Beijing-Hong Kong doctroal Forum 2008, Beijing, China
- Workshop Chair, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2008), Auckland, New Zealand
- Session Chair, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2008), Napa Valley, USA
- Panel Session Chair, Hong Kong International Computer Conference 2008, Hong Kong
- Workshop Chair, World Wide Web (WWW2008), Beijing, China
- Program Committee Member, Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2008), Crete, Greece
- Workshop Chair, World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI2008)
- Referee, Track 2: Pattern Recognition, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2008)
- Technical Co-Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2007)
- Technical Track Co-Chair, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM2007)
- General Co-Chair, Beijing-Hong Kong Doctoral Forum 2007, Hong Kong
- Program Committee Member, ACM Multimedia (ACM MM 2007)
- Program Committee Member, IEEE Multimedia Expo (ICME2007)
- Program Committee Member, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM2007)
- Program Committee Member, VISUAL2007
- Program Committee Member, International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering And Learning (IDEAL2007)
- Program Committee Member, Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB2007)
- Program Chair, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2006)
- Organizing Chair, ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications (VRCIA2006)
- Program Committee Member, ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications (VRCIA2006)
By Conference
- ACM SIGIR: 2009
- ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM): 2010
- Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML): 2009
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2009
- VISUAL: 2007
- Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM): 2007
- Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB): 2006, 2007
Reviewer/Referee
- ACM SIGMOD
- IEEE Signal Processing Letter (IEEE SPL): 2006
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (IEEE TCAS)
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE)
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM)
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (IEEE TNN)
- IEEE Transactions Parallel and Distributed System (IEEE TPDS): 2006
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE PAMI): 2006, 2007
- IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B (IEEE SMC-B)
- Information Fusion
- International Journal of Computer Vision
- International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI)
- Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR): 2006
- Machine Vision and Applications
- Pattern Recognition: 2008
- Pattern Recognition Letter
- Real-Time Imaging
- SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging
- Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering
Hong Kong
- Member of Joint Research Scheme ( JRS) Panel under RGC, The Hong Kong SAR Government, 2012–2014
- Member, Engineering Panel, Research Grants Councils (RGC), Hong Kong SAR Government, 2005–2011.
- Panel Member, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)/Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Joint Research Scheme Joint Selection Committee, 2006–2007
- Chair, Task Force on External Reviewers Database, Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), 2006–2007
- Member, Public Policy Grant Panel Member, Research Grants Councils (RGC), Hong Kong SAR Government, 2006–2007.
- Convener, External Reviewer Database Task Force, Research Grants Councils (RGC), Hong Kong SAR Government, 2006–Present.
- Member, Executive Committee of the IEEE (Hong Kong) Computer Chapter, 1998.
- Reviewer, RGC Earmarked Grants
- External Examiner, The Open University of Hong Kong, 2005–Present
- Member, Continuing Education Committee, YMCA of Hong Kong, 2004–-Present
- Chair, Information Technology and Teaching Facilities Committee (ITTFC), YMCA Committee on Continuing Education, 2009–Present.
- External Assessor, Hong Kong Applied R~\&~D Fund Co. Ltd., August 1994.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Principal Investigator, Chief Technologist and Co-Founder, The VeriGuide System, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004–Present
Engineering Faculty
- Member, Engineering Faculty Board, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1 August 2009 to 31 July 2011
- Director, Engineering International Programmes (ERGIP), Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004–Present
- Member, Faculty Curriculum Committee, 2006–2009
- Member, Committee on Teaching and Learning, 2007–2009
- Member, Academic Committee, CUHK MoE-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Human-Centric Computing and Interface Technologies, 2008–Present
- Member of the Faculty Board, August 2001 – July 2007; August 2009–present.
- Member of the Working Committee of the Innovative Technology Fair 1999, April 30-May 1, 1999, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- Chairperson of the Faculty Library Committee, 1994 – 2004.
- Member, Working Group for the Opening of Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building (November 1993 – January 1994).
- Working Group on the Proficiency of English Language (August 1993).
- Category (d) Member of Board/Committee of Studies (August 1993)
New Asia College
- Member, General Education Committee, 1996–present.
- Member, New Asia Staff Association Committee, 2002-2004.
- Computer Science \& Engineering Coordinator for the New Asia College, 1996, 2001.
- Instructor, STOT General Education Class, September 1993 (10); September 1996 (19), 1999, 2002, 2006, 2009.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006–Present
- Chair, Accreditation Task Force, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2008–2009
- Representative, University General Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007–Present
- Member, Programme Review Task Force, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2006–2007
- Member, EXCO, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2006–2007
- Coach, ACM Inter-Collegiate Programming Contest Team, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2000–2007
- Member, Graduate Panel, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2002–2006
- Chair, Library Committee, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 1993–2003
- Member, Computer User Group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2005–2006
