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Biography
Wan-Chi Siu, [AP(HKPolyU,1975), MPhil(CUHK,1977),
PhD(Imperial,UK,1984), DIC, CEng, FHKIE, FIEE, SrMIEEE] received the Associateship from The
Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the MPhil degree from The Chinese
University of Hong Kong in 1975 and 1977, respectively, and the Ph.D.
Degree from Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London,
UK, in October 1984.
He was with The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Tutor and
later as an Engineer between 1975 and 1980. He then joined The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University as a Lecturer in 1980. He was promoted to Senior
Lecturer, Principle Lecturer, and Reader in 1985, 1987 and 1990,
respectively, and has been Chair Professor of the Department of Electronic
and Information Engineering since 1992. He was Head of Department of
Electronic and Information Engineering Department and subsequently Dean of
Engineering Faculty between 1994 and 2002. He is currently the Director of
the Centre for Multimedia Signal Processing of the same university. He has
published 300 research papers, over 130 of which appeared in international
journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and is an editor
of the recent book Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management
(Springer, 2003). His research interests include digital signal processing,
fast computational algorithms, transforms, wavelets, image and video
coding, and computational aspects of pattern recognition.
Professor Siu was a Guest Editor, Associate Editor and Editorial
Board Member of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Pt.II, Pattern
Recognition, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image,
Video Technology, the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, in
addition to other journals. He has been a keynote speaker of many international
conferences, including IEEE PCM-2002 (Taiwan) and the IEEE 2003 ICNNSP
(Nanjing, China). He has held the position of General Chair or Technical
Program Chair of many international conferences, including IEEE Society
sponsored flagship conferences such as ISCAS’1997, ICASSP’2003 and
ICIP’2010 (to be held in Hong Kong). Between 1991 and 1995, Professor Siu
was a member of the Physical Sciences and Engineering Panel of the Research
Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong Government, and in 1994, he chaired the
first Engineering and Information Technology Panel of the Research
Assessment Exercise (RAE) to assess the research quality of 19 Cost Centers
(departments) from all universities in Hong Kong. He has received many
awards, including Distinguished Presenter Award (1997), IEEE Third
Millennium Medal (2000), the Best Teacher Award (2003), the Outstanding
Award in Research (2003), Plaque for Exceptional Leadership from IEEE SPCB
(2003), and Honorable Mention Winner Award from Pattern Recognition (2004).
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