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Professors

Lei Chen received his BS degree in Computer Science at Tian Jin University, P.R. China (BS 94), and an MA degree in computer science at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Asian Institute of Technology (MS 97). He received a PhD degree in Computer Science at University of Waterloo. His research Interests lie on Multimedia databases; distributed databases systems; scientific and graph databases; data management over sensor network and p2p network; stream data management.

Qiang Yang received the PhD degree from the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, in 1989. He is the head of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he is a New Bright Endowed chair professor of engineering. Between 2012 and 2014, he was the founding director of the Huawei Noah’s Ark Research Lab. His research interests are data mining and artificial intelligence including machine learning, planning and case based reasoning. He had been an assistant/associate professor at the University of Waterloo between 1989 and 1995, and a professor and NSERC Industrial Research chair at Simon Fraser University in Canada from 1995 to 2001. He has been an invited speaker at IJCAI 2009, ACL 2009, ACML 2009 and ADMA 2008 and 2012, SDM 2012, WSDM 2013, etc. He was elected as a vice chair of ACM SIGART/SIGAI in July 2010 and is currently an advisor of ACM SIGAI. He was the founding editor in chief of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) and is currently the founding EIC of the IEEE Transactions on Big Data. He is on the editorial boards of IEEE Intelligent Systems and several other international journals (IEEE, TKDE (2005-2009), AI Magazine, etc.). He has served as a PC co-chair and general co-chair of several international conferences, including ACM KDD 2010 and 2012, ACM RecSys 2013, ACM IUI 2010, ICCBR 2001, etc. He serves as an IJCAI trustee and will be the PC chair for IJCAI 2015. He is a fellow of the AAAI, IEEE, IAPR, and AAAS.

Prof Kwok received his BSc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and his PhD degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was a consultant at the Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He then joined the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor. He returned to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2000 and is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Currently, Prof Kwok is serving as Associate Editors for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and the Neurocomputing journal. He is also Program Co-chair of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP-2011).

Postdocs and Ph.D students

Zheng Zhu [google scholar], Prof. Hai Yang's postdocs and also the project manager of HKUST-DIDI Joint Lab.

Jintao Ke [google scholar], Prof. Hai Yang's student, working towards supply-demand forecasting and drivers' behavioral studies. E-mail: jke@connect.ust.hk

Yili Tang, Prof. Hai Yang's student, working towards drivers' rewarding scheme in ride-sourcing platform. E-mail: ytangap@connect.ust.hk

Xiaoran Qin, Prof. Hai Yang's student, working towards the charging station deployment and dispatching strategies for electrical ride-sourcing vehicle. E-mail: xqinad@connect.ust.hk