Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management

Lam Kai Pui received his B.Sc. (Eng) (Electrical Engineering, HKU), M.Phil. (Electronics, CUHK), and D.Phil. (Engineering Science, Oxford University) in 1975, 1977, and 1980, respectively. He then joined the Information Science Section of the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada, where he worked on research projects in CAD/CAM, adaptive control, and machine intelligence. His interests in teaching led him to join the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of British Columbia in 1987. He returned to Hong Kong in 1991 to take up a position of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Systems Engineering of CUHK. Prof. Lam has a broad research interest and published in the areas of adaptive control, computational intelligence, knowledge-based systems, and their applications in microprocessor systems and financial systems. He obtained research funding supports from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Earmarked Grants from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the UK/HK Joint Research Scheme. Prof. Lam had initiated several knowledge engineering projects with a primary focus on industrial collaboration and technology transfer, including AICAMS (Artificial Intelligence Crime Analysis and Management System) with the Hong Kong Police. More recently his research has focused on using FPGA (field programmable gate array) in bioinformatics and neuronal dynamics and on intra-daily information in financial volatility forecasting.

AI Applications for Microprocessor Systems Design

Financial Engineering

Knowledge Engineering and Applications

Neural Networks and Neuro-Dynamic Programming

Real-time Systems and Electronic Commerce

K.P. Lam and H.S. Ng, "Intra-daily information of range-based volatility for MEM-GARCH", Int. Conf on Time Series Econometrics, Finance, and Risk (TSEFAR), Perth, 29 June - 1 July, 2006.

Terrence S. T, Mak, G. Rachmuth, K.P. Lam, and C-S. Poon, "A component-based FPGA Design Framework for Neuronal Ion Channel Dynamics Simulations", to appear in IEEE Trans. Neural Systems & Rahabitation Engineering, Vol.14, No.4, 2006, PP410-418.

Terrence S.T. Mak and K. P. Lam, "Equivalence - Set Genes Partitioning Using an Evolutionary - DP Approach" IEEE Trans. NanoBioscience, vol.4, No.,4, Dec. 2005, pp 295-300.

K.P. Lam, "Learning Optimal Values from Random Walk" Proceedings of the 17th IEEE Int. Conf. On Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 14-16th Nov, 2005, Hong Kong, pp 334-339.

K.P. Lam, "Intelligent Information Systems for Crime Analysis", in Applied Decision Support with Soft Computing (X.Yu and J. Kacprzyk (Eds).), Springer-Verlag 2003, 346-363.

H.S. Ng and K.P. Lam, "Analog and digital FPGA Implementation of BRIN for optimization problems", IEEE Tran. Neural Networks, 14, 1413-1425, 2003.

Terrence S. Mak, G. Racchmuth, K.P. Lam, C.S. Poon, "Field Programmable Gate Array Implementation of Neuronal Ion Channel Dynamics", in the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Int. EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Arlington, 2005.

K.P. Lam, "Predictability of Intraday Stock Index", Proc. Of the 2002 Int. Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'02), 2156-2161, 2002.

S.M. Yuen and K.P. Lam, "Fuzzy time point compatibility reasoning for microprocessor systems", IEE Proceedings, Computer and Digital Techniques, 146, 1, 68-76, 1999.

J.W. Brahan, K.P. Lam, H. Chan and W. Leung, "AICAMS - Artificial Intelligence Crime Analysis and Management System", in Applications and Innovations in Expert Systems V, (1997), 143-153. Also in Journal of Knowledge Based System. 11, 355-361, 1998.

K.P. Lam and C.W. Tong, "Connectionist network for dynamic programming problems", IEE Proceedings, Computer and Digital Techniques, 144, 163-168, 1997.

K.P. Lam, H.S. Ng and W.K. Tai, "Analogue and VLSI implementation of connectionist network for minimum spanning tree problems", Int. J. Electronics, 83, 69-77, 1997.

C.W. Tong and K.P. Lam, "Closed semiring optimisation circuits using a connectionist approach", IEEE Trans. Circuits & Systems I, 43, 478-482, 1996.

K.P. Lam, "Convergence analysis of binary relation inference networks", IEE Proceedings, Control Theory & Applications, 143, 319-324, 1996.

K.P. Lam and C.W. Tong, "Closed semiring connectionist network for the Bellman-Ford computation", IEE Proceedings, Computer and Digital Techniques, 143, 189-195, 1996.