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Mr. Horace Chow, General Manager, Microsoft Hong Kong Limited

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Mr. Horace Chow
General Manager
Microsoft Hong Kong Limited

Key Ideas

  1. The latest trend of IT development, including the cloud, social media and the Big Data, creates tremendous opportunities for engineers to change the lives of people.  Through the social media, engineering becomes more outreaching.
     
  2. No matter which subjects students are studying, passion and fun can help to override the hardship of the study.
     
  3. The SEEM programme can address the social needs of today and is applicable to the real world.
Mr. Horace Chow

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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Mr. Puneet Anand 
Managing Director 
Global Markets Risk Executive-Asia
Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Key Ideas

  1. Engineering promotes the skills that are hugely demanded by a wide range of careers because engineering can provide analytical skills regarding how to use data intelligently.
     
  2. Engineering is challenging and difficult, but not harsh.  In fact, it is interesting and fun.  To succeed in their future careers, students should choose a subject of their liking and aptitude.
  3. The SEEM programme can equip students with the skills set that is relevant to our modern world, so it is perfect for students who want to pursue a career in the service or financial industry.

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.

Mr. Lifa Sun (PhD candidate, Supervisor: Prof. Helen Meng) has received the Best Paper Award from the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2016), Seattle, USA, July 11-15, 2016

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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)

Jannuzzi Dario, Geneva

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Name:        Jannuzzi Dario

Jannuzzi Dario, M.Sc. SEEM 2012 Graduate
Jannuzzi Dario, M.Sc. SEEM 2012 Graduate

Programme:    M.Sc. SEEM 2012 Graduate

Company:    Geneva

I enrolled as a full-time student in the SEEM Master’s programme and I am extremely happy about the choice I made.

The SEEM programme enabled me to strengthen my knowledge in Engineering Management, Operations and Logistics and broadened my understanding of Financial Engineering and IT.  Courses were taught by extremely well prepared teachers, and tutors were very supportive and active in helping students with internship and job applications.

Last but not least, this experience in Hong Kong literally opened my eyes on the whole APAC region, not only from a business point of view, but also from a social and cultural perspective.

Alex Xu, PwC

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Name:         Alex Xu

Alex Xu ,SEEM 2008 Graduate
Alex Xu ,SEEM 2008 Graduate

Programme:    SEEM 2008 Graduate

Company:    PwC

It is my pleasure to share with you that I just got admitted to the INSEAD MBA program in Europe starting in January 2013.  INSEAD is my dream school for pursuing higher education in Business, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank you again for all the support you have provided for my MBA application including the supporting letter and encouragement throughout the past 8 years).
 
As you may know, I graduated from Department of SEEM 5 years ago. When I look back on my years in CUHK and SEEM, I find our SEEM faculty, professors and alumni really influenced me a lot on both my career aspiration and personal values. I would like to thank you again and hope to contribute my experience back to our students and alumni.
 
Let’s keep in touch and I look forward to next SEEM sharing event.

April Shing

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Name:        April Shing

April Shing, M.Sc. SEEM 2012 Graduate
April Shing, M.Sc. SEEM 2012 Graduate

Programme:    M.Sc. SEEM 2012 Graduate

Company:    Hongkong International Terminals

I found my interests in project management through my work in the past few years, while I was also interested to have basic knowledge of finance and logistic. Thus, I chose M.Sc. in SEEM, which offers a wide range of courses including project management, financial analysis and securing trading, logistics and data mining, etc.
 
Besides regular lectures, the programme offers different kinds of seminars and workshops  such as interview and dressing skill, sharing by experts and leaders from logistic and banking industries and company visits which have broadened my horizon.

In addition to the enhancement of both my knowledge and horizon, I have gained valuable and thorough experience in teamwork building. I also had chances to complete projects with classmates from different cultures including mainland and oversea.
 
M.Sc. in SEEM is definitely a master programme I would highly recommend it to my friends.

Liang Fang, BMT Asia Pacific

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Name:         Liang Fang

Liang Fang, M.Sc. ECLT 2012 Graduate
Liang Fang, M.Sc. ECLT 2012 Graduate

Programme:    M.Sc. ECLT 2012 Graduate

Company:     BMT Asia Pacific

I started my internship in BMT Asia Pacific in February 2012. I took  internship because I wanted to enhance my hands-on experience in the business world and my communication skills. Therefore, at the beginning of my internship I told my lecturer in charge that I really wanted to learn more and I would work hard on my job.

Since BMT is a global consulting firm, I have learnt a lot during my internship. I started with tasks like data collection, information researching from which I learnt some useful information channels.

When I was free, I had chances to read some project reports written by full time colleagues . I  learnt – their way of thinking and writing styles. After I had grasped the basic understanding about the project in which I was involved, I started making cold calls to different Asian countries which was the most thrilling part of my internship. This cold call experience has made me more confident in talking with others. Apart from the works  mentioned above, I also assisted in organizing workshops for projects and I had a chance to meet business leaders in logistics industry. They shared their views about the logistics industry in Hong Kong and how they face the current situation.  I was also given a chance to draft some parts of project reports after I had learnt by myself how to write a report in BMT format.

After this wonderful internship, I have gained more than I expected. From this internship, I met a lot of excellent colleagues. I am now more confident of the business world and to begin my new journey in Finland. I wish everyone of you can enjoy your school years in Hong Kong. It is a nice place to be there and learn!