Professor David Dagan Feng
MEng, MSc, PhD, MIFAC, MACM, SrMIEEE

Professor
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  • Research Interests: Biomedical and multimedia information technology, computer modelling and simulation, functional imaging, fast algorithms, and data compression
  • Address: Room DE638, Department of Electronic & Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
  • Telephone: +852 2766 6228
  • E-mail address: enfeng@polyu.edu.hk

Biography

(David) Dagan Feng received his ME in Electrical Engineering & Computing Science (EECS) from Shanghai JiaoTong University in 1982, MSc in Biocybernetics and Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1985 and 1988 respectively. After briefly working as Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside, he joined the University of Sydney at the end of 1988, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and then Reader. He has been appointed as a Professor in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 1997. His research interests include Biomedical & Multimedia Information Technology; Functional Imaging; Modeling & Simulation; Fast Algorithms & Data Compression. He has published over one hundred scholarly research papers. He has made several landmark contributions in his field and received a number of awards, including the Crump Prize for Excellence in Medical Engineering from USA. He is Founder and Director of the Biomedical & Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT) Group at the University of Sydney; Deputy Director of the Center for Multimedia Signal Processing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Special Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (IEEE-TITB); Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Multimedia Information Technology in Biomedicine for IEEE-TITB; Vice-Chair of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on BIOMED; and Chairman of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) Biomedical Division. He has been invited as a keynote speaker by a number of major international conferences, including the IEEE-ITAB'98, the world most prestigious conference for Information Technology Applications in Biomedicine. Professor Feng has also been appointed as Honorary Research Consultant at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Australia, since 1997, Guest Professor at Northwestern Polytechnic University since 1997, Guest Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University since 1998, and Guest Professor at Tsinghua University since 1999.

 

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