James Tin-Yau KWOK () Professor Computer Science and Engineering

Biography

Dr. Kwok received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. 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, Dr. Kwok is serving as Associate Editors for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and the Neurocomputing journal. He is also Program Co-chair of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2012), and a Governing Board Member of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA).

PhD studentships available: Please send me your CV if you are highly motivated and have strong interest in machine learning research.

Research

Current Research Interests

Kernel methods, Machine learning, Pattern recognition, Artificial neural networks

Applications: Computer vision and image processing, speech processing, pervasive computing

List of publications

Awards

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding 2004 Paper Award

Second Class Award in Natural Sciences by the Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China, 2008

Normination for the Best Paper Award, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2010.

Research Group

Artificial Intelligence

Current Students

Wenliang Zhong (PhD student)

Wei Bi (PhD student)

Yufeng Li (PhD student in Nanjing University, co-supervised with Zhihua Zhou)

Former Students

Kai Zhang (PhD 2008; Research Scientist, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA)

Ivor Tsang (PhD 2007, MPhil 2003; Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Pak-Ming Cheung (MPhil 2006; Microsoft, Shanghai, China)

Calvin Chu (MPhil 2005; Hong Kong Bank, Hong Kong)

Teaching

COMP171: Data Structures and Algorithms

COMP221: Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence

COMP271: Design and Analysis of Algorithms

COMP327: Introduction to Pattern Recognition

COMP344: Image Processing

COMP4211: Machine Learning (UG)

COMP5212: Machine Learning (PG)

COMP621I: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning

COMP621O: Kernel Methods in Machine Learning

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