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Biography
Wan-Chi Siu, (AP(HK) PolyU 1975, MPhil
CUHK 1977, PhD Imperial College 1984) joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University as a
lecturer in 1980 and was subsequently promoted to
Senior Lecturer, Principle Lecturer and Reader in 1985, 1987 and 1990
respectively, and has become Chair Professor in the Department of
Electronic and Information Engineering since 1992. He was
Head (EIE) and subsequently Dean of Engineering Faculty between 1994 and
2002. Professor Siu is now Director of the Centre for Signal Processing of
the same university.
Prof. Siu is an expert,
and a popular speaker in Digital Signal Processing, specializing in fast
algorithms and video coding. His research interests also include
transforms, image coding, wavelets, and computational aspects of pattern
recognition. He frequently makes open presentations and has published 380
research papers, over 150 of which appeared in international journals, such
as IEEE Transactions. His work on fast computational algorithms (such as
DCT) and motion estimation algorithms have been well accepted by academic
peers, with good citation records, and a number of which are now being used
in industrial applications. He is an editor of the recent book,
‘Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management’, Springer
Berlin Heidelberg. Professor Siu has been/was Guest Editor, Associate
Editor and Member of editorial board of a number of journals, keynote
speaker and key organizer of many world-class international conferences
(such as IEEECPM’2002, and IEEE society sponsored flagship
conferences: ISCAS’97 (technical program chair), ICASSP’2003
(general chair) and ICIP’2010 (general chair)). 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.
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