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  BS, MS (Columbia); MS, PhD (UC, Berkeley); FIEEE, FACM, FAAAS, FSDPS
Provost; Wei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
   
   
Professor Benjamin WAH was the Franklin W. Woeltge Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a prominent computer scientist, with expertise in non-linear programming, multimedia signal processing and artificial intelligence. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and has served as the President of IEEE Computer Society.

Professor Wah has received numerous international honours and awards for his distinguished academic and professional achievements. Among these are the W. Wallace McDowell Award, the Tsutomu Kanai Award and the Richard E. Merwin Distinguished Service Award of the IEEE Computer Society. Professor Wah received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Columbia University, and his MS in Computer Science and PhD in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He began teaching in Purdue University in 1979, and later joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. He also served as Director of the Advanced Digital Sciences Centre established by the University of Illinois in Singapore in 2009, with funding from the Singapore government's Agency for Science, Technology and Research
   
     
     
   
     
 
 
  BSc (CUHK); PhD, DSc (Lond.); CChem; FRSC;
Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Fellow, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
   
Professor Henry N.C. WONG is currently the Pro-Vice-Chancellor / Vice-President, Professor of Chemistry and Head of New Asia College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He obtained his B.Sc. degree with first class honours from CUHK in 1973, and was subsequently awarded a Shell Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies in the United Kingdom. He furthered his studies at University College London where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1976. After two postdoctoral research years at Harvard University, Professor Wong returned to University College London to begin his independent research undertaking as Ramsay Memorial Fellow. From 1980 to 1982, Professor Wong did research at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences. He returned to CUHK in 1983 and was the Chairman of the Department of Chemistry from 1995 to 1997.
   
     
   
     
   
  BSocSc (HK); FCA; FCA (Aust); FHKSA
 
 
Mr. Terence CHAN is currently University Bursar of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has over 30 years of experience in senior management and financial operation in both private and public organizations. He has served in international investment companies as Vice President and several listed companies as Financial Controller.
 
Mr. Chan is a Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Fellow of Hong Kong Society of Accountants and Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.Active in public service, he was the Treasurer and a Memberof the Executive Board of The Road Safety Association Limited.Currently, he is the Vice-Chairman of the Finance Committeeof the Scout Association of Hong Kong.
 
 
   
  AB, PhD (UC, Berkeley)
 
 
Professor Walter HO is presently the Research Professor (Honorary), School of Biomedical Sciences; Co-Convener, Clinical Trials Section, Institute of Chinese Medicine of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Managing Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Economics and Ph.D. degree in Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley.
 
Professor HO actively participates in the promotion of Biotechnology in Hong Kong. From 1995 to 1999, he was a member of the Biotechnology Committee under the Hong Kong Government Industry Department. He is also a founding and council member of the Hong Kong Biotechnology Association. In addition, he has organized a number of conferences and workshops in various biotechnology topics. Professor HO is currently honorary professor of the Guangzhou Medical University and Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and he has also acted as consultants to a number of biotechnology companies in Hong Kong.
     
   
   
  BSc (CUHK), PhD (Lond.)
 
Professor Christopher H.K. CHENG is a Professor at the School of Biomedical Sciences and also a member of the Center of Novel Functional Molecules at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Professor Cheng received his Bachelor of Science degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Doctor of Philosophy degree from University College London. He has carried out extensive research on molecular endocrinology and on the identification and development of drugs from both natural and synthetic sources.

He had previously worked in the University of California, San Francisco and Genentech Inc. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the School of Life Science at Sun Yat-Sen University and also in the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Zhejiang University, China. He serves on the editorial advisory panel of a number of journals including the Biochemical Journal in the U.K.
 
 
     
 
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