Dean of Science
1995 Ph.D. in Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
1992 M.Phil. in Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong
1990 B.Sc. in Mathematics, The University of Hong Kong
2021-2023 Associate Director, Institute of Data Science, HKU
2020-2023 Chairperson, HKU-TCL Joint Research Center for AI, Director, Faculty of Science, HKU
2019-2023 Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics, HKU
2019-2021 Director, Research Division for Mathematical and Statistical Science, Faculty of Science, HKU
2019-2020 Director, Big Data Research Cluster, Faculty of Science, HKU
2015-2019 Chair Professor (Affiliate), Department of Computer Science, HKBU
2012-2015 Associate Director, Institute for Computational and Theoretical Studies, HKBU
2008-2013 Executive Director, Institute of Computational Mathematics, HKBU
2006-2019 Director, Centre for Mathematical Imaging and Vision, HKBU
2005-2019 Professor/Chair Professor, MSc Programme Director/Head of Mathematics, HKBU
1997-2005 Assistant/Associate Professor, HKU
1995-1997 Research Fellow, Computer Science Laboratory, Australian National University
2025 Class of AMS Fellow
2022 AAIA Fellow
2021 Second Prize of 2020 Guangdong Natural Science Award (结构张量的理论,计算与应用: W. Li, M. Ng, Y. Chen)
2020 Second Prize of 2019 Hunan Natural Science Award (基于正则化方法的图像恢复理论及方法: Y. Wen, Y. Huang, M. Ng, W. Ching, C. Zhu)
2019 Honorable Mention Award for The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (A Weighted Tensor Factorization Method for Low‐rank Tensor Completion: M. Cheng, L. Jing and M. Ng)
2017 Feng Kang Prize
2017 SIAM Fellow
2014 HKBU President's Awards for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work
2007 Outstanding Research Paper in World Congress in Computer Science
2001 HKU Outstanding Young Research Award
1999 Excellent Young Researcher's Presentation at Nanjing International Conference on Optimization and Numerical Algebra
1996 Honourable Mention of Householder Award IX
Top Mathematics Scientists in China
Top Computer Science Scientists in China
Google Scholar
Publons/Web of Science
Scopus
DBLP (computer science bibliography)
Interdisciplinary Research
US Patent: Method and Device for Use in Converting a Colour Image into a Grayscale Image (8,355,566)
SIAM Nuggets: Seamless photography: using mathematical models for image stitching, (October 2013)
People.CN (2013): RMB
MATH and STAT RDD in Issue 29 Oct 2020 Science@HKU Newsletter
2024 Plenary Speaker, SIAM Conference on Imaging Science
2023 Biennial French-German Mathematics in Imaging, Phd Prize Jury
2023 Contest Committee Member, Feng Kang Prize
2022 Plenary Speaker, SIAM Annual Meeting
2022 Organization Committee Member, SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science
2022-2023 Vice-President, Hong Kong Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (HKSIAM)
2021-2022 Organizer, Imaging & Inverse Problems OneWorld Seminars
2021-2023 Member, Enterprise Support Scheme Assessment Panel, Innovation and Technology Commission, Hong Kong
2021, 2023 Member, Steering Committee of the 2021 Hang Lung Mathematics Awards
2021- Member, The Science and Technology Development Fund Project Advisory Committee, Macau
2021 Keynote Speaker, The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
2019-2021 Member, SIAM Major Awards Committee
2019-2021 Scientific Committee Member, Hong Kong Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (HKSIAM)
2019, 2021 Area Chair, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2019 Member, ICIAM Maxwell Prize Committee
2019 Member, SDM/IBM Early Career Data Mining Researcher Award Committee
2018 Co-chair, SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Hong Kong
2017-2021 Board and Standing Committee Member, China Society for Computational Mathematics
2017 Co-chair, The Fifteenth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, Shenzhen
2016-2021 Engineering Panel Member, Hong Kong Research Grants Council Joint Research Schemes
2014 Co-chair, SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Hong Kong
2013-2019 Steering Committee Member, International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering
2012 Organization Committee Member, SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra
2011 Program Co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine, Hong Kong
2009-2015 Engineering Panel Member, Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Funding Scheme
2009 Plenary Speaker, SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra
2008- Council Member, Hong Kong Institute of Science
2008 Director, Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute
2007-2011 Board Member, China Society for Computational Mathematics
2005-2008 Secretary, East Asia SIAM Section
1998-2000, 2002-2006, Public Relations/Publications Secretary, Hong Kong Mathematical Society
2006-, Principal Editor, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Elsevier)
2023-, Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (Springer)
2022-, Board Member, AI Remote Sensing Section of Remote Sensing (MDPI)
2021-2024, Data Science Area Editor, Advances in Continuous and Discrete Models: Theory and Modern Applications (Elsevier)
2019-2024, Editor-in-Chief, Software Impacts (Elsevier)
2018-, Associate Editor, Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation (Springer)
2018-, Associate Editor, Journal of Scientific Computing (Springer)
2018-, Assoicate Editor, SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (SIAM)
2017-, Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Mathematics (Global Science Press)
2015-, Associate Editor, East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics (Global Science Press)
2014-, Associate Editor, Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (Springer)
2009-2012, Associate Editor, Fuzzy Information and Engineering (Springer)
2008-2015, Associate Editor, International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets, and Intelligent Systems (InderScience)
2006-, Associate Editor, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (InderScience)
2005-2010, Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SIAM)
2004-, Associate Editor, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications (Wiley-Blackwell)
2004-, Editorial Board Member, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (Springer)
2003-2016, Associate Editor, Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications (Global Science)
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