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Yiu-ming Cheung
received Ph.D. degree from Department of Computer Science and Engineering at
The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2000. He joined the Department of Computer Science in Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) in 2001,
and became a full professor since 2012. He is an IEEE Fellow, IET/IEE Fellow, British
Computer Society (BCS) Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and
IETI Distinguished Fellow, as well as the recipient of “Chu Tian Scholars” in
China. His
research interests include machine learning, pattern recognition, image and video processing,
and optimization. He has published over 250 articles in the high-quality conferences
and journals, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on
Neural Networks and
Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions
on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on SMC (Part B), and so on. His co-authored work on
multi-modal optimization won the championship in the competition of Multi-Niche
Optimization held in CEC’2015 --- a flagship international conference on
Evolutionary Computation. Moreover, he has been granted one Chinese patent and
two US patents. In particular, selected from 1000 new inventions and products
of 700+ competition teams from 40 countries, he was awarded two most
prestigious prizes: (1) the Gold Medal with Distinction (i.e. the highest grade
in Gold Medals) and (2) Swiss Automobile Club Prize, in the 45th International
Exhibition of Invention, Geneva, Switzerland, on March 29-April 2, 2017, in
recognition of his innovative work. Also, he was the Gold Award Winner of Hong
Kong Innovative Invention Award in the Seventh Hong Kong Innovative
Technologies Achievement Award 2017. In addition, he won the Gold Medal with
Congratulations of Jury (i.e. the highest grade in Gold Medals) and the Award
of Excellence from Romania, respectively, at the 46th International Exhibition
of Inventions of Geneva 2018. Prof. Cheung was the recipient of 2011
Best Research Award in Department of Computer Science, HKBU, the recipient
of Best Paper Awards in SEAL’2017, ISICA’2017, ICNC-FSKD’2014, and IEEE
IWDVT’2005, respectively, and the recipient of 2017 IETI Annual Scientific
Award. He
is the Founding and Past Chairman of IEEE (Hong Kong)
Chapter of Computational Intelligence Society, and the Chair of IEEE Computer Society Technical
Committee on Intelligent Informatics. Furthermore, he has taken the key
positions in several top-tier international conferences, e.g. Senior Program
Committee Member of IJCAI-ECAI’2018, Area Chair of ICDM’2017 and ICDM’2018, Program
Committee Chair of WI’2012 and IAT’2012, Organizing Committee
Chair of WI’06,
IAT’06, ICDM’06, etc. He has served as the Guest Editor / Associate
Editor in several prestigious international journals, including: IEEE
Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Cybernetics, Pattern Recognition, Neurocomputing, and Knowledge and Information Systems: An International
Journal, to name a few.
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