Faculty

The contributions of our faculty members have been recognized into the following areas:

  • Editorships
  • Awards and Recognition
  • Serving the Society


Editorships

Our faculty members are leaders in their respective fields. In recognition of their leadership and contributions to research and innovations, they are invited or elected to serve as editors of top-tier professional journals, including:

  • ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems
  • Computational Management Science
  • Computer Speech and Language
  • Computers & Operations Research
  • Data Science and Engineering (DSE) Journal
  • Digital Finance
  • EURO Journal on Computational Optimization
  • EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics
  • Fuzzy Decision Making and Optimization
  • IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering
  • IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics
  • Information and Decision Technologies
  • International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing
  • International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems
  • International Journal on Computational Linguistics
  • International Journal on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages
  • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
  • Journal of Global Optimization
  • ournal of Information Processing
  • Journal of Scheduling
  • Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • Journal on Distributed and Parallel Databases
  • Journal on Health Information Science and Systems
  • Mathematics and Financial Economics
  • Mathematical Finance
  • Mathematical Programming
  • Mathematics of Operations Research
  • Naval Research Logistics
  • Omega – International Journal of Management Science
  • Operations Research
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Optimization Methods and Software
  • Quantitative Finance
  • Reliability Engineering and System Safety
  • SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
  • SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics
  • SIAM Journal on Optimization
  • Speech Communication
  • The VLDB Journal
  • Transportation Science
  • World Wide Web Journal


Awards and Recognition

Our programmes are led by a team of active, energetic and dynamic faculty members.  Research outputs from our faculty and students have also won numerous international and regional awards and honours, including:

  • Best Student Paper Award in the IEEE International
  • Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
  • (ICASSP) 2025
  • Best Paper Award in ACL-SIGHAN 2024
  • Best Paper Award (Research Track) in ACM SIGKDD Conference 2023
  • Best Paper Award in the 2022 CSAMSE Conference
  • Best Paper Award in the 14th International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE) 2022
  • Best Paper Award in the 26th Australasian Database Conference (ADC’15) 2015
  • Best Paper award of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 2016
  • CCF Natural Science Second Prize 2023
  • CUHK Research Excellence Award 2016-17
  • Distinguished Project Award of China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fair 2016
  • Elected Distinguished Lecturer of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
  • Elected Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (2014)
  • Elected Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association (2016)
  • Elected Member of IEEE Board of Governors
  • Elected Member of IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee
  • Fellow of HKIE
  • Fellow of IEEE
  • Finalist, POMS-HK Best Student Paper Award, 2025
  • First Place, INFORMS Society on Location Analysis Best Student Paper Award, 2023
  • Finalist in 2021 MSOM Best OM Paper in OR
  • Hong Kong ICT Award Smart Inclusion Silver Award 2018
  • Humboldt Distinguished Lecture 2013
  • IBM Faculty Award 2016
  • IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award 2014
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award 2015
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award 2018
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society Leo L Beranek Meritorious Service Award 2019
  • INFORMS Computing Society Prize 2024
  • Inaugural Distinguished Lecturer of APSIPA (Asia- Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association) 2012-2014
  • Invited Speaker of Okawa Prize 2012 Commemorative Symposium
  • Keynote Speaker under the theme of “From Collaborative
  • Research to Real World Impact at InnoHK Summit December 2023
  • Keynote Speaker of ACL 2021
  • Keynote Speaker of CLIC 2021
  • Keynote Speaker of AFEKA 2021
  • Microsoft Research Outstanding Collaborator Award 2016
  • Most Successful Woman Award 2022
  • Outstanding Paper Award in ACL 2024
  • Outstanding Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering 2015 for five years
  • Outstanding ICT Women Professional Award of the Hong Kong Computer Society 2015
  • Plenary Speaker of CogInfoComm 2013
  • Plenary Speaker of INTERSPEECH 2018
  • Plenary Speaker of IEEE ICASSP 2021
  • Plenary Speaker of the HKMA Annual Conference 2023
  • Runner-up Prize of the Best Contributed Theoretical Paper Award at the INFORMS Winter Simulation Conference 2021
  • Second Prize in the Best Paper Award at the 2024 CSAMSE Conference
  • Saint Francis Prize in Techno-Humanities (2024)
  • SIAM Review SIGEST Award
  • Speaker at the 150 Years in the Making MIT and Women in STEM Event 2023
  • The Chinese Institute of Electronics Nature Science Award (First Prize) 2020
  • The Chinese Institute of Electronics Nature Science Award (First Prize) 2023
  • The Best Student Paper of the 34th Australasian Database Conference (ADC’23), 2023
  • 2022 年中國中文資訊學會科學技術獎：“錢偉長中文資訊處理科學技術獎” 一等獎


Serving the Society 

Our faculty members have been active in serving societal roles that are related to their expertise:

  • Academic Committee, The Chinese National Research Center of
  • Mathematics and Cross-Disciplinary Science, Department of Finance
  • and Economics
  • Ad hoc reviewer of Mathematical Finance, Finance and Stochastics, Operations Research, Annals of Applied Probability, etc
  • Associate editor, Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • Award Committee, INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award
  • Chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong
  • Chinese Language Interface Advisory Committee, appointed by the Deputy Government Chief Information Officer
  • Convenor, Engineering Panel, University Grants Council’s Competitive Research Funding for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector
  • Convenor, Working Party on 2014 Manpower Survey of the Information Technology Sector, Committee on Information Technology Training and Development of the Vocational Training Council
  • Council Member, Hong Kong Institution of Science
  • Council Member, Hong Kong Productivity Council, appointed by the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development
  • Council Member, The Open University of Hong Kong
  • Digital 21 Strategy Advisory Committee, appointed by the Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology
  • Elected Board Member, International Speech Communication Association
  • Elected Vice-President of Professional Development, Hong Kong Computer Society
  • Engineering Panel Member, Research Grants Council
  • General Chair, INTERSPEECH 2020
  • General Chair, International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing
  • HKIE Accreditation Committee for Computer Science Programs, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
  • Honorable Advisor, IBM Collaborative Innovation Program
  • IEEE Speech and Language Technical Committee
  • Joint Committee on Information Technology for the Social Welfare Sector, appointed by the Director of Social Welfare
  • Judging Panel Member, nominations to the State Scientific and Technological Progress Awards (SSTPA) and State Technological Invention Awards (STIA), The Hong Kong SAR Government
  • Keynote Speaker of the International Symposium on Scheduling (2013), Tokyo, Japan
  • Member, Enterprise Supporting Scheme (ESS) Assessment Panel (Information Technology Subgroup), Innovation & Technology Commission (ITC), Hong Kong SAR Government
  • Member of Advisory Board, Cyber Security Lab, Applied Science & Technology Research Institute (ASTRI)
  • Member of the Academic and Accreditation Advisory Committee (AAAC), Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission
  • Member of the Advisory Panel for Green and Sustainable Fintech Proof-of-Concept Funding Support Scheme, Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB), Hong Kong SAR Government
  • Member of the Advisory Panel for the FinTech Proofof- Concept Subsidy Scheme appointed by Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau
  • Member of the Advisory Panel for Green and Sustainable Fintech Proof-of-Concept Funding Support Scheme, Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB), Hong Kong SAR Government
  • Member, Board of Directors, ASTRI
  • Member of the Distance Business programme Vetting Committee appointed by the Innovation and Technology Bureau
  • Member of the Enterprise Support Scheme Assessment Panel under the Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) appointed by the Innovation and Technology Bureau
  • Member, Executive Board, Hong Kong Institution of Science
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the Operational Research Society of Hong Kong
  • Member of the GenAI Sandbox Selection Committee, Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Hong Kong SAR Government
  • Member of the Industry Panel for Hong Kong Green Fintech Map, Hong Kong Securities & Futures Commission
  • Member of the Innovation and Technology Fund Research Projects Assessment Panel, The Hong Kong SAR Government
  • Member of the Lottery Funds Advisory Committee, appointed by the Secretary for Labour and Welfare
  • Member of the Research Grants Council, The Hong Kong SAR Government
  • Member of the Steering Committee in eHR (electronic Health Record) Sharing, appointed by the Secretary of Food and Health, The Hong Kong SAR Government
  • Member of Technology Review Board, ASTRI
  • Member of the Working Group on Competitive Research Funding for Local Self-financing Degree Sector, appointed by the RGC Chairman
  • Mentor, ESF Science Fair, 2019, New York, US
  • Panel of Assessors, The Innovation and Technology Support Programme, appointed by the Commissioner of Innovation and Technology
  • Panel of Assessors, The Small Entrepreneur Research Assistance Programme, appointed by the Commissioner of Innovation and Technology
  • Panel Member for Accreditation of The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers as Assessment Agency for Professional Qualifications (Associate Fintech Professional & Certified Fintech Professional), Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic & Vocational Qualifications
  • Panel Member for Learning Programme Accreditation for Master of Science in Financial Technology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic & Vocational Qualifications
  • President, Hong Kong Information Technology Joint Council
  • Review Panel, INFORMS MSOM Conference
  • Review Panel, National Centres of Competence in Research, Swiss National Science Foundation
  • Review Panel, National Natural Science Foundation of China
  • Review Panel, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • Review Panel, Swedish Research Council European Research Infrastructure Initiative
  • Scientific Programme Chair, 19th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, 2011, Melbourne, Australia
  • Task Force on Facilitating the Adoption of Wireless and Mobile Services and Technology (FAWMST), appointed by the Government Chief Information Officer
  • Technical Chair, Oriental Chapter of the International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques
  • Technical Program Co-Chair, Interspeech
  • Technology Consultant, Technology Services Division, The Hong Kong SAR Government
  • The Central Committee on Information Technology for Rehabilitation Services, appointed by the Director of Social Welfare
  • Workshop Chair, International Conference on Data Engineering 2022