KENNETH CHENG - Key Persons
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- Director of Trustworthy Machine Learning and Reasoning Group at Hong Kong Baptist University
Bo Han is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and a Director of Trustworthy Machine Learning and Reasoning Group at Hong Kong Baptist University, and a BAIHO Visiting Scientist at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (RIKEN AIP). He was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Microsoft Research (2022) and a Postdoc Fellow at RIKEN AIP (2019-2020). He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Technology Sydney (2015-2019). During 2018-2019, he was a Research Intern with the AI Residency Program at RIKEN AIP, working on trustworthy representation learning (e.g., Co-teaching and Masking). He also works on causal representation learning (e.g., CausalAdv and CausalNL). He has co-authored a machine learning monograph, including Machine Learning with Noisy Labels (MIT Press). He has served as area chairs of NeurIPS, ICML and ICLR, senior program committees of AAAI, IJCAI and KDD, and program committees of AISTATS, UAI and CLeaR. He has also served as action (associate) editors of Transactions on Machine Learning Research, Neural Networks and IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and editorial board members of Journal of Machine Learning Research and Machine Learning Journal. He received the RIKEN BAIHO Award (2019), RGC Early CAREER Scheme (2020), MSRA StarTrack Program (2021) and Tencent AI Focused Research Award (2022).
Research Interests
Weakly supervised Representation Learning: [Survey] [NeurIPS'18] [NeurIPS'18] [ICML'19] [ICML'20] [ICML'21] [NeurIPS'21] [ICML'22]
Security, Privacy and Robustness in Machine Learning: [ICML'20] [NeurIPS'21] [ICML'21] [ICLR'21] [ICML'22] [ICLR'22]
Automated, Federated and Graph Machine Learning: [ICML'20] [KDD'21] [ICML'22] [ICLR'22] [KDD'22]
Interdisciplinary Problems (e.g., Healthcare Analytics and Drug Discovery): [Project'20] [Project'22]
I am always looking for self-motivated PhD/RA/Visiting students and Postdoc researchers. Please read this document for recruiting information, and check this document for department information. Meanwhile, I am happy to host remote research trainees. Due to the large number of emails I receive, I cannot respond to every email individually. Thanks!
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- Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Dr. Chen Jie is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University. Before joining HKBU, he was a senior algorithm engineer at OmniVision Technologies Inc., Singapore. He worked as post-doctoral research fellow at ST Engineering-NTU Corporate Laboratory, Singapore for three years after he received Ph.D. degree in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received B.Sc. and M. Eng. degrees both from School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. His research focuses on mathematical and machine learning models that solve computational photography and computer vision problems. Dr. Chen has publications in top-tier journals and conferences (TIP, TCI, TCSVT, TGRS, CVPR, ECCV, etc.), and he has been frequently serving as PC/AC members at international academic venues (ACM MM, ICME, VCIP, EUSIPCO etc.). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Visual Computer Journal, Springer.
Research Interests
Computational Photography (Light fields, HDR+, Computational Tomography)
Computer Vision (Image Synthesis, Scene Understanding, VR/AR applications)
Novel Imaging Systems and their ISP pipelines
Dr. Hong-Ning Dai (Henry) obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a D.Eng. in Computer Technology Application from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Before joining HKBU, he worked in the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Macau University of Science and Technology, and the Department of Computing and Decision Sciences at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has published more than 250 papers in referred journals and conferences, including Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE JSAC, IEEE TMC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE Trans. on Computer, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE/ACM, ICSE, ACM/IEEE ASE, IEEE INFOCOM, ICDE, ICDCS, AAAI, ACM CSUR, ACM TOSEM, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, etc. He is a senior member of ACM, IEEE, and EAI. He has served as an associate editor for IEEE Communications Survey and Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, Ad Hoc Networks, and Connection Science. He has served as a PC member of top-tier conferences, including WWW'24, SDM'24, ASE'23, KDD'23, KDD'24, CIKM'19, ICPADS'19. He has also served as general chair/PC chair of many international conferences.
Dr. Henry Dai is recruiting self-motivated Ph.D./RA/Post-doc with a strong background in computer science, electronic engineering, or applied mathematics, working in fields including (but not limited to) security and reliability of VR/AR systems, blockchain, and the Internet of Things. More details about Ph.D. applications and Ph.D. scholarships are as follows.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Dr. Kaiyang Zhou is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). Before joining HKBU, he was a postdoc at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Surrey, UK. His research interests include machine learning and computer vision. Visit his homepage at https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Dr. Xin Huang is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014. His research interests include graph data management, graph mining and visualization, social network analysis, and privacy-aware computing. He has published in refereed conferences and journals including SIGMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, WWW, DAC, CIKM, AAAI, IJCAI, TKDE, TKDD, TMC, TNNLS, and VLDBJ. His scholarly works win the Best Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2019), the Best Student Paper Award at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2017), the Best Paper Nomination at the 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020), as well as the Best Student Paper Award at the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS 2023). He is a recipient of the RGC Early Career Award (2020), the HKBU President's Award for Outstanding Performance as Young Researcher (2021), and the Departmental Best Research Award (2020) and Best Teaching Award (2023).
Research Interests
Data Management
Big Graph Mining & Visualization
Social Network Analysis
Privacy-Aware Computing
Pong C Yuen received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Hong Kong. He joined the Hong Kong Baptist University in 1993, served as the Head of Department of Computer Science from 2011 - 2017 and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) of Faculty of Science from 2018-2024. Currently, he is a Chair Professor in Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Over the years, Dr. Yuen has spent his sabbatical and visited a number of universities/research institutes as a visiting professor/scholar, including The University of Sydney (Australia), The University of Maryland at College Park (USA), INRIA Rhone Alpes (France), ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and The University of Bologna (Italy). Dr. Yuen was the director of Croucher Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on biometric authentication in 2004 and the director of Croucher ASI on Biometric Security and Privacy in 2007. He has been serving as the Director of IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics since 2017.
Dr. Yuen has been actively involved in many international conferences and professional community in the capacity of general/program co-chair, including ICPR 2006, BTAS 2012, ISBA 2016, WIFS 2018, IJCB 2021. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2014 - 2018, 2021-2022), and received the Outstanding Editorial Board Service Award in 2018. Dr. Yuen has served as the Vice President (Technical Activities) of the IEEE Biometrics Council (2017-2019), and Associate Editor/Senior Editor of SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging (2012-2019). Currently, Dr. Yuen is serving as the Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Editorial Board Member of Pattern Recognition, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behaviour and Identity Science. He received the first-prize and second-prize Natural Science Awards from the Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Education, China, respectively. He is a Fellow of IAPR.
Research Interests
Biometric security and privacy
Video surveillance
Medical informatics
Dr. Zhou received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2016. She received her MSE and BEng degrees from Beihang University in 2012 and 2009, respectively. She was a postdoc researcher in INRIA Rennes center (2016-2017) and a faculty member of Shenzhen University (2017-2023). Her research interests include parallel and distributed systems, cloud computing and high-performance computing. She has published more than 30 technical articles in refereed journals and conferences including SC, HPDC, ICS, ICDE, ICDCS, ICPP and TPDS. She has been actively serving the community by participating in the organizing/program committees for conferences including SC, HPDC, ICPP, Cluster and CIKM. She is also serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) and an Editor for Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS). She is the recipient of the IEEE-CS TCHPC Early Career Award and the ACM SIGHPC China Rising Star Award in 2021. She received the Shenzhen Young Scientist Award in 2023.
Jiming Liu has been the Chair Professor in Computer Science (04/2010-) and Associate Vice-President (Research) (05/2017-12/2019) at Hong Kong Baptist University. He received his M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from McGill University (Centre for Intelligent Machines). His current research interests include Data Analytics and Machine Learning, Complex Networks and Systems, Web Intelligence (WI), Autonomy-Oriented Computing (AOC) Paradigms, and AI-Enabled Epidemiology and Practice. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Prof. Liu has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Web Intelligence Journal (IOS), and the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Data and Information Analytics (AIMS), and Computational Intelligence (Wiley), among others. He was the Chair of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII).
Research Interests
Data Analytics and Machine Learning
AI for Social Good
Complex Networks and Web Intelligence
Multi-Agent Complex Systems
Autonomy-Oriented Computing
Mr. Mandel Chan received his bachelor degree in Management Information System from Chu Hai College, and his Master degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The Open University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He joined the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2012 as an instructor. And he is also an Executive Committee, Directory (Internal) of iEthics - The Computer Ethics Society. He has more than ten years working experience in the I.T. consultancy services field. He is keen in programming and computer technologies. His interests include Networking, Mobile Computing, Internet Computing and Game Programming.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Administrative & Technical Staff
- Kam Kong
Mr. Kenny Cheng received his BComp(Hons) in Internet Technology from The Open University of Hong Kong, and his MSc in Software Technology from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He joined the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2017 as an instructor. He has several years' experience in web development. He is interested in web technologies and programming languages.
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- Member of the Administrative & Technical Staff
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- Teaching Assistant
- Teaching Support Staff Member
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- Member of the Administrative & Technical Staff
- Information Technology Officer
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- Member of the Administrative & Technical Staff
- Communication Officer
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- Executive Officer
- Member of the Administrative & Technical Staff
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- Teaching Assistant
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- Instructor
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Ms Fok graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong where she was awarded a Bachelor of Business Administration (Management Information System). To further her interests in Information Technology, she subsequently pursued studies and obtained her MSc degree in Business Information Technology from Middlesex University. She also obtained a Continuing Education Diploma in Transportation and Logistics Management from School of Continuing and Professional Education, The City University of Hong Kong in 2005.
She joined the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2008 as an instructor. Prior to joining HKBU, she taught Computer Information Technology in VTC and the Community College at Lingnan University respectively.
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- Teaching Assistant
- Teaching Support Staff Member
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- Instructor
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- Executive Assistant
- Member of the Administrative & Technical Staff
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- Teaching Assistant
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- Instructor
- Teaching Support Staff Member
Ms. Lo received a BEng(Hons) in Information Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, and an MSc in Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) from the University of Hong Kong. She has taught various courses in Computer Science since 2007. She joined the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2012.
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- Executive Assistant
- Member of the Administrative & Technical Staff
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- Executive Officer
- Member of the Administrative & Technical Staff
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- Executive Assistant
- Member of the Administrative & Technical Staff
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- Member of the Administrative & Technical Staff
- Officer
- Senior Executive
William K. Cheung received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong in 1999. He is currently the Professor of the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, data mining, collaborative information filtering, social network analysis, and healthcare informatics. He has served as the Co-Chairs and Program Committee Members for a number of international conferences on areas including artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, Web intelligence, and health informatics. He is the Program Co-chair of 2020 IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics. From 2002-2018, he was on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin. He is a Track Editor of Web Intelligence Journal and an Associate Editor of Journal of Health Information Research.
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence
Data Mining
Social Network Analysis
Health Informatics
Yifan Chen is an assistant professor in computer science and math at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is broadly interested in developing efficient algorithms for machine learning, encompassing both statistical and deep learning models. Before joining HKBU, Yifan earned his Ph.D. degree in Statistics from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2023, fortunately under the guidance of Prof. Yun Yang.
Research Interests
Machine Learning
Distributional Models
Computational Methods
Non-parametric Methods
I am looking for self-motivated (visiting) Ph.D. students / (remote) research assistants to work with me on machine learning. Fellowships / salaries are provided to qualified candidates. Any interested applicants can directly send me your CV and a brief introduction to your research interest. Please refer to the Zhihu post for more details.