====== 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) [[http://ieee-cis.org/nn/|Neural Networks Technical Committee]], 2005--Present - Technical Committee Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) [[http://ieee-cis.org/dm/|Data Mining Technical Committee]], 2007--Present - Apple Distinguished Educator, [[http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=9671|Apple Learning Exchange]], 2008--Present ===== Editorial Board & Journal Editorship ===== - Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data ([[http://www.cs.uic.edu/~tkdd/|ACM TKDD]]), 2011--present. - Associate Editor of INNS Natural Intelligence Magazine ([[http://www.inns.org/natural-intelligence-magazine/Default.asp|INNS NIM]]), 2011--present. - Associate Editor, [[http://www.ieee-cis.org/pubs/tnn/|IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (TNN)]], 2007--2011. - Advisory Board, Springer Book Series Bio- Neuroinformatics, July 2011--2014. - Advisory Board, Springer's [[http://refworks.springer.com/mrw/index.php?id=4366|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, [[http://www.igi-global.com/|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, [[http://www.igi-global.com/|IGI Global]], November 2009. - Editorial Board, [[http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?PHPSESSID=bvegob8240i00umqjsbi9cbgf6&id=ijicc|International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (IJICC)]] [ [[http://ijicc.buaa.edu.cn/|alternate site]] ] by [[http://www.emeraldinsight.com/|Emerald]] - Editorial Board, [[http://www.bentham.org/open/toisj/|The Open Information Systems Journal]] - Editorial Board, Neural Information Processing-Letters & Review ([[http://www.nip-lr.info/|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, [[http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?PHPSESSID=ise4vfp7m2nm2gpo7v5aoqo136&id=ijicc|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 ([[http://ijcnn2009.com/|IJCNN2009]]), Atlanta, Georgia - Program Committee Member, Search Track, World Wide Web ([[http://www2009.org|WWW2009]]), Madrid, Spain - Program Committee Member, Tutorial Track, World Wide Web ([[http://www2009.org|WWW2009]]), Madrid, Spain ----- - General Co-Chair, [[http://phd2008.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/|Beijing-Hong Kong doctroal Forum 2008]], Beijing, China - Workshop Chair, International Conference on Neural Information Processing ([[http://www.aut.ac.nz/iconip08/|ICONIP2008]]), Auckland, New Zealand - Session Chair, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ([[http://www.cikm2008.org/|CIKM2008]]), Napa Valley, USA - Panel Session Chair, [[http://www.hkcs.org.hk/hkicc2008/|Hong Kong International Computer Conference 2008]], Hong Kong - Workshop Chair, World Wide Web ([[http://www2008.org|WWW2008]]), Beijing, China - Program Committee Member, Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2008), Crete, Greece - Workshop Chair, World Congress on Computational Intelligence ([[http://www.wcci2008.org/|WCCI2008]]) - Referee, Track 2: Pattern Recognition, International Conference on Pattern Recognition ([[http://www.icpr2008.org|ICPR2008]]) ----- - Technical Co-Chair, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks ([[http://www.ijcnn2007.org|IJCNN2007]]) - Technical Track Co-Chair, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia ([[http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~pcm2007/|PCM2007]]) - General Co-Chair, [[http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/PHDForum2007/doku.php|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 ([[http://www.iconip2006.org|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 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management ([[http://cikmconference.org/|CIKM]]): [[http://www.cikm2008.org/|2008]], [[http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/conference/cikm2009/|2009]] - ACM Multimedia (ACM MM): [[http://acmmm05.comp.nus.edu.sg/|2005]], [[http://mmc36.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/acmmm2007/|2007]], [[http://www.acmmm09.org/|2009]] - ACM SIGIR: [[http://sigir2009.org/|2009]] - ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM): [[http://www.wsdm-conference.org/2010/|2010]] - Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML): [[http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/acml09/|2009]] - Australian AI: [[http://www.ai2004.cqu.edu.au/|2004]], 2005, [[http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/ai06/|2006]], [[http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/conferences/austai_staging/|2007]] - IEEE Multimedia Expo (ICME): [[http://www.icme2005.org/|2005]], [[http://research.microsoft.com/conferences/ICME07/|2007]] - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): [[http://ijcai-09.org/index.html|2009]] - International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP): 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, [[http://www.iconip2006.org|2006]], [[http://conf.lsse.kyutech.ac.jp/~iconip2007/iconip2007main.html|2007]], [[http://www.aut.ac.nz/iconip08/|2008]], [[http://www.iconip09.org/|2009]] - IJCNN or WCCI: [[http://www.inns.org/ijcnn.asp|2005]], [[http://www.compsys.ia.ac.cn/wcci2006/|2006]], [[http://ijcnn2007.org/|2007]], [[http://www.wcci2008.org/|2008]], [[http://ijcnn2009.com/|2009]] - VISUAL: [[http://www.viplab.cs.nott.ac.uk/visual2007/|2007]] - Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM): [[http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~pcm2007/|2007]] - Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB): 2006, [[http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sce/prib/prib07/|2007]] - World Wide Web (WWW) Conference: [[http://www10.org|2001]], [[http://www2002.org|2002]], [[http://www2003.org|2003]], [[http://www2004.org|2004]], [[http://www2005.org|2005]], [[http://www2006.org|2006]], [[http://www2008.org|2008]], [[http://www2009.org/|2009]], [[http://www2010.org/www/|2010]] ===== 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 ([[http://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/index.htm| 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 [[http://veriguide1.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/|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, [[http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/ERGIP/doku.php|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, [[http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ms-cu-jl/|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