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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. |
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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. |
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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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is presently the Chairman and Professor of the Department of Biochemistry
and the head of United College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Philosophy degrees
from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Doctor of Philosophy
degree from the University of Hong Kong. His major research focus
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KWONG is currently the Finance Manager of The Chinese University
of Hong Kong. She has over 25 years experience in senior management
and financial operation in both private and public organizations.
Mrs. Kwong is a Fellow member of both the Association
of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Hong Kong Institute of
Certified Public Accountants. Currently, she is the Honorary Auditor
of The Chinese University Women’s Organization and the Honorary
Financial Advisor of the Staff Association of Shaw College.
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is the Professor and Director of the School of Pharmacy, CUHK. Professor
Lee is a world-renowned leader in ocular drug delivery as well as
macromolecular drug delivery. He previously held leadership posts
at the University of Southern California, ALZA (a Johnson & Johnson
company), and the US Food and Drug Administration. He was elected
to the presidency of two leading global scientific societies and presently
serves as editor-in-chief of Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews and
Pharmaceutical Research. In 2003, he was awarded an Honorary
Doctor of Science degree from the University of London, United Kingdom.
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the Professor of the Department of Biology and Director of the
UGC Area of Excellence on Plant and Fungal Biotechnology, the
Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Bachelor of Science
Degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Doctor of
Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin. His research interest
is on plant molecular biology and biotechnology, plant gene isolation,
rice quality improvement and functional genomics. He served a
number of research and academic positions of increasing responsibility,
including Principal Scientist at ARCO Plant Cell Research Institute,
Professor at the Department of Plant Molecular Physiology of the
University of Hawaii. He also holds a number of administrative
positions including member of the Advisory Committee at the Institute
of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Board Member of the Germplasma
Improvement Program, National Engineering Research Centre for
Vegetables, China.
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His major research focus is on Clinical Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology of herbal medicine.
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