Professor Shiqian Ma receives the Excellent Paper Prize of Journal of Operations Research Society of China, 2016.

July 29, 2016
This year marks the 25th Anniversary of Microsoft Research and they are highlighting 32 academics worldwide as outstanding collaborators. Details posted at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/outstanding-collaborator-award/.
Dr. Chun Por Wong, JP
Chief of Service (Integrated Medical Services)
Consultant & Head, Department of Geriatrics
Ruttonjee & Tang Shiu Kin Hospitals
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Profile of Dr. Chun Por Wong, JP
Dr. Wong is concurrently appointed as Chief of Integrated Medical Services & Consultant Geriatrician in-charge of Ruttonjee & Tang Shiu Kin Hospitals. He has practiced geriatric medicine since 1981 and steered the development of geriatric services of Ruttonjee Hospital since 1992. He has special interests in community geriatric services and neurological diseases in the elderly. Dr. Wong is also the Service Director (Primary and Community Health Care) of the Hong Kong East Cluster of hospitals. Since 1993, he has pioneered several community projects, including the Community Geriatric Assessment Teams, High Risk Elderly Database, Community Health Call Center, and the Hospital Admission Risk Reduction Program for the Elderly.
Dr. Wong has been council member of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, Hong Kong College of Physicians and Hong Kong Geriatrics Society, and has been very active in the education and accreditation of Geriatric Medical Training in Hong Kong. He is a member of the Multidisciplinary Panel on Neuropathic Pain and Hong Kong Cardiovascular Task Force. He has also a special interest in health informatics and is the chairman of the Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics, President of the eHealth Consortium, and Past President of Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics. He is editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics, Asia Pacific Electronic Journal of Health Informatics and Health Informatics Research.
Mr. Edwin Keh
Chief Executive Officer
The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA)
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Profile of Mr. Edwin Keh
Mr. Keh has extensive experience in senior management roles in procurement, consumer and retail industries. He was the SVP COO of Wal-Mart Global Procurement. Prior to that he was the Managing Director of Payless Shoesource International, Donna Karan International, and Country Road Australia.
He is a faculty member of the Operations and Information Management Department at the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania.
To recognise his contributions to the field of supply chain management, Mr. Keh was the 2011 recipient of the Production and Operations Management Society’s Excellence in Practice Award.
Mr. Keh graduated from Whittier College with a BA in Political Science, Sociology, and Urban Design.
Dr. Gang Yu
Co-Founder and Chairman
The Store Corporation
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Profile of Dr. Gang Yu
Dr. Gang Yu is the co-founder and Chairman of The Store Corporation. Prior to his current position, he served as Vice President, Worldwide Procurement at Dell Inc. managing Dell’s over $18 billion procurement in Asia Pacific. He was also appointed as Vice President of Worldwide Supply Chain Operations at Amazon.com. He was the founder and former Chairman/CEO of CALEB Technologies Corporation (now a subsidiary of Accenture).
He has been the Jack G. Taylor Professor of Business at the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin for fifteen years and published over 80 journal articles, three patents and four books. He won the 2002 Franz Edelman Management Science Achievement Award from INFORMS and the 2003 Outstanding IIE Publication Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers, in addition to many other awards.
He received his MS from Cornell University and his PhD from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Horace Chow
General Manager
Microsoft Hong Kong Limited
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Profile of Mr. Horace Chow
As General Manager of Microsoft Hong Kong Limited, Mr. Horace Chow oversees the overall strategy and business operations in Hong Kong. He leads an executive team responsible for Microsoft business, including key customer organizations, business, marketing groups and technical support and consultancy services.
Horace is a data management, business intelligence and enterprise mobility industry veteran. Prior to the appointment as General Manager of Microsoft Hong Kong, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Database & Technology for SAP China. In that role, Horace was responsible for the overall strategic development and business performance for all SAP database offerings, including engagement with customers and partners.
Prior to SAP, Horace was the Vice President for Asia Pacific and General Manager for North Asia region at Sybase, where he was responsible for financial performance and market leadership in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea markets. Before Sybase, Horace was a Manager in the IT Consulting Practice of KPMG Management Consulting.
Horace graduated in Computer Studies in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He also holds an Honors degree in Computer Science from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Puneet Anand
Managing Director
Global Markets Risk Executive-Asia
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
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Profile of Mr. Puneet Anand
Mr. Puneet Anand was appointed Global Markets Risk Executive for Asia in May 2012, and is responsible for working with the various Global Markets businesses towards identification, navigation and management of Market and Counterparty risks. He chairs the Asia New Product Review Committee and is a member of the Global Markets Leadership Committees in the region. He also represents Bank of America at the Regional Head of Risk forum for foreign banks in Asia, and is a member of number of other management committees.
Puneet joined Bank of America in 1989 as a management trainee, and has since worked in the areas of Corporate Banking, Corporate Credit Risk, Financial Institutions Credit Risk, Credit Review, Counterparty & Issuer Risk, and Market Risk. Puneet has over twenty years of banking experience, both in Lines of Business and in Risk. His product experience spans trading businesses, capital markets, structured finance, wealth management products, real estate, project finance, working capital finance and, trade and payment products. He has extensive experience across the different countries in Asia Pacific having risk managed the portfolios for all countries at some point in time.
Puneet graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India where he majored in Computer Science & Engineering. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India.
July 11-15, 2016
ICME has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities. The paper, coauthored with Kun Li, Hao Wang, Shiyin Kang (who are also PhD candidates in SEEM), is entitled “Phonetic Posteriorgrams for Many-to-one Voice Conversion without Parallel Data Training” (http://www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~hccl/publications/pub/2016_paper_297.pdf)