Evidence-based Technology: Case Studies and Interactions

Speaker:        Dr. Patrick C. K. Hung
                Business and Information Technology
                University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Title:          "Evidence-based Technology: Case Studies and
                Interactions"

Date:           Friday, 6 January 2012

Time:           11:00am - 12:00 noon

Venue:          Room 4475 (via lifts 25/26)

Abstract:

Many enterprises need advanced educational technologies to enhance
instruction and aid training to high quality personnel. Evidence-based
technology provides a variety of contemporary solutions to identified
training problems related to the assessment of profession training. The
evidence-based technology focuses on empirical evidence and effectiveness
to achieve specific training goals. Evidence-based training is an
individual level of evidence-based process to achieve training goals from
organization resources, process, evaluation and reflection, which is
supported by information technology. Evidence-based technology emphasizes
the critical appraisal of the trainees to the training content, which is
beneficial for cultivating trainees' critical thinking and problem solving
skills. This talk gives an overview of evidence-based technology with a
couple of case studies. As a UST graduate, the speaker will also share his
personal experiences in research activities and commercialization to the
current graduate students at the department.

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Biography:

Patrick C. K. Hung is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business
and Information Technology in University of Ontario Institute of
Technology in Canada and an Adjunct Professor at the State Key Laboratory
of Software Engineering at Wuhan University in China. He is also a Guest
Research Professor at Kingdee in ShenZhen, China. In addition, he was a
Guest Professor at Institute of Computer Science in University of
Innsbruck, Austria and Department of Information Engineering and Computer
Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. Patrick has been working
with Boeing Research and Technology at Seattle in the USA, and he has
filed two US patent applications on "Mobile Network Dynamic Workflow
Exception Handling System" with Boeing. Before that, he was a Research
Scientist with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organization (CSIRO) at Canberra in Australia. He also has prior
industrial experience in e-business projects in USA, Canada, China and
Hong Kong. He is a founding committee member of the IEEE International
Conference of Web Services, IEEE International Conference on Services
Computing, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, IEEE
International Conference on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Congress on
Services. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Services
Computing, International Journal of Web Services Research and
International Journal of Business Process and Integration Management. He
has local undergraduate and graduate teaching experiences in CityU,
Baptist University, PolyU and Chinese University of Hong Kong. Patrick is
the co-designer and instructor of the mobile business certificate
programme at School of Continuing Studies in University of Toronto,
Canada. Patrick is also a co-founder of Beaconwall Limited in Hong Kong
Science Park with Prof. Jay Tashiro from the USA.

Patrick has Ph.D. and Master of Philosophy Science in Computer Science
from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong,
Master of Applied Science in Management Sciences from the University of
Waterloo in Canada, and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the
University of New South Wales, Australia. On the other hand, he has been
studied at CLC Japanese Language Institute at Tokyo, Japan. He has also
been a visiting graduate student at RSA Laboratories West at San Mateo,
California, USA and at Department of Information Science at Kyoto
University, Japan.