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Roland T. CHIN Professor and Department Head
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Professor of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1981-95).
Analyst, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (1979-Sl).
Research interests
Computer vision; image processing;
pattern recognition; digital signal processing.
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Samuel T. CHANSON PhD, University of Professor, University of High-speed networks (ATM) and Professor and California, Berkeley British Columbia (1975- multimedia communication; communi-
Associate Department (1975). 96). cation protocols; distributed and parallel
Head; Director, Cyber- systems; electronic commerce.
space Center
PhD, Technical Univer- sity of Graz (1982).
Professor, University of Data structures and algorithms;
Illinois, Urbana- computational geometry; discrete Champaign (199O- ). geometry; combinatorial topology, Visiting Professor, combinatorics; solid modeling; scientific HKUST (1994-95). computing; geometric visualization.
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Frederick H. PhD, University of
LOCHOVSKY Toronto (1978).
Professor Visiting Scientist, IBM
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Professor of Computer Science, University of Toronto (1988-94).
Information systems design; database design; data and knowledge base integration; organizational support systems; human-computer interaction;
digital libraries.
PhD, Princeton University (1969).
Founding Head, Dept of Software productivity and quality;
Computer Science, Internet computing; digital libraries.
HKUST (1990-95).
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Doctoral and Postdoctoral Training
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Positions Research Interests
PhD, Leeds University (196s).
Professor of Computer Document processing; data structures Science, University of and algorithms; computational formal-, Western Ontario (1991- language theory; hioinformatics;
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Professor of Computer
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PhD, University of Utah (1989).
Assoc. Professor and High-speed networking; VLSI integrated Professor, University of circuit design; computer architecture;
Calgary (1990-94). parallel and distributed processing;
operations research and combinatorial optimization.
Dik Lun LEE PhD, Univ ersity of Assoc. Professor of Database systems; information retrieval
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Ting-Chuen PONG PhD, ’ Virginia Polytech- Reader and nit Institute and State Director, Sino Software University (1984).
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Computer vision; artificial intelligence;
Computer Science, Assoc. Professor of
pattern recognition; robotics; parallel University of Minne- algorithms for pattern recognition and sota (1990-95). image analysis.
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Researcher, Institut Design and analysis of algorithms;
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Mounir HAMDI Associate Professor
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Selected Previous
Positions Research Interests
High-speed networking; ATM packet switching; wireless communications;
parallel computing; high-performance computer architectures.
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Helen C. SHEN PhD, University of Adjunct Professor of Multisenser-based robotic systems;
Associate Professor and Waterloo (19S2). Systems Design Engi- flexible manufacturing systems; 3D object Associate Dean of neering, University of reconstruction; pattern recognition.
Waterloo (1995-2000).
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ileering, University-of Waterloo (1992-95).
Dit-Yan YEUNG Associate Professor
PhD, University of Southern California (1989).
Asst Professor of Computer Science, Illinois Instihtte of Technology (1989-90).
Neural computation; statistical learuing theory; handwriting recognition; pen computing.
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Ishfaq AHMAD Assistant Professor
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PhD, Syracuse Univer- sity (1992).
Parallel and distributed processing; high performance computer architechues;
performance evaluation.
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Ply, University of Visiting Researcher, Computational geometry; data struchues;
Maryland, College Park Max-Planck-Institut tir design and analysis of algorithms;
(1995). Informatik, Saarbriicken combinatorics.
(1993-95).
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Selected Previous Positions
Research Fellow, Uni- versity of Waterloo (1992-93).
Research Interests
Computer graphics; rendering;
visualization; virtual environments;
robotics; graph-theoretic analysis of physical systems; entropy optimization.
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PhD, University of Minnesota (1992).
Instructor, University of Computational geometry; data structures;
Minnesota (1991-92). design and analysis of algorithms.
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PhD, Freie Universitlt Berlin (1992).
Asst Professor, Pohang Computational geometry and appli- University of Science & cations; combinatorial geometry.
Technology (1995-97).
Asst Professor, Utrecht g-fgg#J~jigqj : ~~&-&qiij i University (1992-95).
Shing Chi CHEUNG Assistant Professor
PhD, University of London (1994).
Distributed sofbare design and analysis;
open distributed software platform;
software verification; distributed multimedia systems; mobile computing.
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Manhoi CHOY Assistant Professor gft;g
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Doctoral and Postdoctoral Training PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (1994).
Selected Previous
Positions Research interests
Parallel and distributed systems; distri- buted algorithms; geographical inform- ation systems.
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GAN Kok Wee PhD, National Univer- Lecturer sity of Singapore (1995).
Natural language processing; Chinese computing; computer-aided instructions,
James W. GRAY, III Assistant Professor SUR
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PhD, University of Maryland, College Park (1992).
Computer Scientist, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washing- ton, DC (1989-93).
Computer security; Internet security;
cryptography.
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PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana (1993).
Computer music; audio engineering;
musical acoustics; genetic algorithms
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Kamalakar KARLAPALEM Assistant Professor
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PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology (1992).
Software Engineer, Distributed database systems; database Hewlett Packard, Inc. design; semantic data modeling;
(1989). applications of active database systems;
Software Engineer, Tata cooperative problem solving.
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PhD , University of British Columbia (1992).
Knowledge representation and reasoning.
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John Chung Mong LEE PhD, University of Associate Research Computer vision; image processing;
Assistant Professor Minnesota (1989). Staff, Institute of neural networks; robotics; artificial
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Assistant Professor
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I’hD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1993).
Advisory Engineer, Mobile communications; internetworking IBM Corp. Networking of ATM and IP; optical lightwave net- System (1994-96). works; system performance evaluation;
active networking and programming network.
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PhD, California Insti- tute of Technology (1989).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Fermi National Lab- oratory (1990); Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1990-92);
Rockefeller University (1992-94).
Neural computation; computational vision; pattern recognition.
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PhD, Stanford University (1991).
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto (1992-94).
Research Scientist, Stanford University (1991-92).
Research Scientist, University of Toronto (1994-96).
Artificial intelligence; knowledge repre- sentations; robotics.
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Doctoral and Selected Previous
Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests Jelena MISIC
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PhD, University of Belgrade (1993).
Senior Researcher, Institute of Nuclear Sciences (1991-94);
Parallel computer architectures; parallel algorithms, distributed computing; high- speed networking; wireless networkinK
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PhD, Duke University (1991).
Technical Staff, Soft- ware Productivity Consortium (1991-92).
Performance evaluation; stochastic Petri nets; distributed systems; high-speed networking.
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PhD, Stanford Univer- sity (1992).
Technical Staff, Hewlett- Parallel processing; computer architec- Packard Laboratories hxe; compilers; multimedia and real-hme
(1991-93). systems.
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PhD, N.T.U. Athens (1991).
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Califor- nia, San Diego (1994- 95).
Asst Professor, Univer- Data and knowledge base systems;
sity of Maine (1995-96). spatial datab ases; constraint satisfaction ERCIM Fellow, German algorithms; qualitative reasoning;
National Research argumentation systems; WWW Center for Information applications.
Technology (1996).
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Geometric modeling; computer graphics;
scientific visualization.
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Postdoctoral Training Positions Research Interests
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Chung-Dak SHUM PhD, University of Cali- Principal Engineer, Parallel database systems; multimedia Assistant Professor
n:& fornia, Los Angeles NCR/Teradata Corpor- storage and scheduling; federated data-
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PhD, University of California, Berkeley (1992).
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto (1992).
Statistical and corpus-based natural language processing; machine trans- lation; language modeling; speech recognition; dialog systems; internet information processing.
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Beat WCTHRICH Assistant Professor
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PhD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (1991).
Researcher, European Computer Industry Research Centre, Munich (1991-93).
Knowledge discovery in databases; time and uncertainty management.
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ZHANG University (1989). representation; Bayesian networks;
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SEb2 British Columbia under uncertainty.
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