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Biography:
Daniel, P.K. Lun received his B.Sc.(Hons.) degree with 1st
Class Honours from the University of Essex, U.K., and Ph.D degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
(formerly called Hong Kong Polytechnic) in 1988 and 1991, respectively. In
1991, he joined the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University
as a Research Associate. He is now an Associate Professor in the Department
of Electronic and Information Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University. In his 20
years of service in the University, Dr Lun has assumed a number of important
administration duties. He was the Associate Head of the Department in 2002 –
2006 and from 2010 to now. He is now the leader of the Engineering Doctorate
programme and the Double Degree programme of Business Administration and
Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering. During his sabbatical leave in
2006, Dr Lun joined the University
of Windsor in Canada as the
Visiting Scholar and gave several seminars. Dr Lun is active in
research activities. He has published more than 100 international journals
and conference papers. His research interest includes digital signal and
image processing, wavelet theories and applications, as well as multimedia
technologies. One of his research projects "A study of the Computer
Tomography and the Wavelet Transform" was rate as Excellent by
the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. One of his research students has
received the Best Student Paper Award in the first IEEE Pacific-Rim
Conference on Multimedia, which was held in Sydney, Australia,
2000. He was the Secretary, Treasurer, Vice-Chairman and
Chairman of the IEEE Hong Kong Chapter of Signal Processing in 1994, 1995-96,
1997-98, 1999-00, respectively. He was the Finance Chair of 2003 IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, the General
Chair of 2004 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and
Speech Processing (ISIMP2004), and the Finance Chair of 2010 International
Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2010). Dr Lun was invited by the Hong
Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic & Vocational Qualification to
serve as a panel member for the validation of a few local undergraduate
programmes. He is currently the Editor of HKIE Transactions published by the
Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) in the area of Electrical
Engineering. He is also a member of the DSP and Visual Signal Processing and
Communications Technical Committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He
is a Chartered Engineer, a corporate member of IET, HKIE and a member of
IEEE.
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