Polylogo.gif (2320 bytes)Dr. Kenneth K. M. Lam
AP(HK), MSc, DIC, PhD, CEng, MIEE, MHKIE, MIEEE

Department of Electronic and Information Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Associate Professor  
  • Teaching Areas: Computer architecture, mulitmedia technology, pattern recognition
  • Research Interests: Human face recognition, image processing, and video analysis
  • Address: Room DE503c, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
  • Telephone: +852 2766 6207
  • Facsimile: +852 2362 8439
  • E-mail address: enkmlam@polyu.edu.hk

Brief Technical Profile:

Dr Kin-Man Lam received his Associateship in Electronic Engineering with distinction from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (formerly called Hong Kong Polytechnic) in 1986. He won the S.L. Poa Scholarship for overseas studies and was awarded an M.Sc. degree in communication engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, England, in 1987. In August 1993, he undertook a Ph.D. degree program in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia, and won an Australia Postgraduate Award for his studies. He completed his Ph.D. studies in August 1996, and was awarded the IBM Australia Research Student Project Prize.

Dr Lam joined TechTrend E. & C. Ltd. as an Application Engineer in 1987. From 1990 to 1993, he was a lecturer at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He joined the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University again as an Assistant Professor in October 1996, and has become an Associate Professor since February 1999. Dr Lam was actively involved in professional activities. In particular, he was a reviewer, Session Chairman, and member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'97), the Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Session for the China Fourteenth National Conference on Circuits and Systems, the Secretary of the 2001 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing organised by the Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing, EIE, HKPolyU, a Program Committee Member and Session Chair of the 2002 Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, a Principal Member of Technical Programs of the 2002 Seventh International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV'02), and the Secretary of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'03). He was also the Technical Chair of the 2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing (ISIMP 2004) held in Hong Kong between October 20-22, 2004, and a Technical Co-Chair of the 2005 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS 2005). Dr Lam was the Secretary of the IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing between 1992 and 1993 and between 1999 and 2002. Dr. Lam was selected as the "best teacher" of the 1997/98 academic year in his Department.

Currently, Dr Lam is the Chairman of the IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing, a member of the Program/Organizing Committee of the Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 2006), the 9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2006), and the 2006 International Conference on Pattern Recognition. In addition, Dr Lam was a Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Biometric Signal Processing, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, and currently an Associate Editor of the International Journal on Image and Video processing. His current research interests include human face recognition, image and video processing, and computer vision.

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