Jimmy Lee's Homepage


LEE, Jimmy Ho Man

Professor & Graduate Division Head
Dept of Computer Science and Engineering

Associate Director
Center
for the Advancement of IT in Education

B.Math., M.Math. (Waterloo), Ph.D. (Victoria)

 




“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems to make a man more clever devil.   C.S. Lewis


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Jimmy Ho
-Man 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 obtained 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 a Professor and Graduate Division Head in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Jimmy's research focuses on the theory and practice of constraint satisfaction and optimization with applications in combinatorial optimization, scheduling, and resource allocation. In particular, he is interested in problem modeling, stochastic local search, symmetry breaking, global constraints, and over-constrained problems.  Together with Irwin King, Jimmy leads the development of the world’s first plagiarism detection and assignment management system, CUPIDE, supporting both the Chinese and English languages.  In recent years, he also conducts research on novel Web-based learning platforms and accompanying pedagogies, particularly in the design and development of educational games (take a look at Tong Pak Fu and Chou Heung: the Probabilistic Fantasy, Farmtasia, and Learning Villages).  He has also assumed Associate Directorship (Research and Development) at the Centre for the Advancement of Information Technology in Education (CAITE) under the umbrella of the Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  Inspired by his many former good teachers from elementary school to universities, Jimmy received the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award in 2005 and the Faculty of Engineering Exemplary Teaching Award for the academic years 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2002-03, and 2004-05.  He was also recognized for his outstanding service with the Faculty of Engineering Faculty Service Award for 2003-04.

 

Jimmy is on the editorial board of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms, Elsevier.  He co-edits the Constraint Programming Newsletter with Eric Monfroy and Toby Walsh.  Jimmy is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Constraint Programming, and is currently serving as the Secretary of the Association.

 

Jimmy considers himself a fairly athletic person.  Besides being a mediocre table-tennis and soccer player, Jimmy has started long distance running as a hobby to torture his body and clean up his soul (if there is one).  His immediate next goal is to finish a full marathon under 4 hours (achieved his personal best of 4 hours 4 minutes 33 seconds painfully at the 29eme Marathon International de Paris).  He also claimed the “Fastest Old Men” title (Staff Category) at the 2005 New Asia College Happy Run event (can you find me there?), dashing approximately 7.5K from the New Asia College to the Prince of Wales Hospital.  Together with his good partner, Ronald Chung, Jimmy captured the 2nd Runners-Up in the Men's Double Table-Tennis Event of the 2005 Hong Kong Teacher Tennis and Table-Tennis Competition.  On the social side, Jimmy enjoys alcohol sampling (see the pretending connoisseur in action) and random rumbling.  Jimmy is fortunate to have many good friends and colleagues.  Besides being good companions to Jimmy in many activities, they care also about his spiritual behavior and purity.

 

If you are bored, take a look at some of the quotes, jokes, and writings and proverbs that Jimmy has collected over the years (some in Chinese).  May I share this present with you all?  Also, this Management Lesson would certainly benefit you for a lifetime.  This amazing piece relates coffee, coffee cups, and life (read it even if you don’t like coffee).  If you are male, don’t miss this Cautionary Tale for Men (in Chinese) which teaches us all an important lesson.  Everyone has parents, and everyone should read this (in Chinese).  We don’t want to be the cause of a heart-attack, do we?  You may change your personal philosophy after seeing this Tibetian Monks’ sand art (in Chinese).  On the more serious side, the commencement address by Steve Jobs at the Stanford University tells the making of a true pioneer.  Jimmy hopes that you will enjoy and learn from these writings as much as he did.




Address:
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T.
Hong Kong

Phone: +852 2609-8426
      Fax: +852 2603-5024


 

jlee ‘at’ cse.cuhk.edu.hk