Ng, Michael Kwok-po

Biography

Michael Ng is the Head and Chair Professor of the Department of Mathematics, and Chair Professor (Affiliate) of Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong Baptist University. The Chair Professor Inaugural lecture (and the slides) was at 15 March, 2016. He is selected for the 2017 Class of Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( photo , news and HKBU news ). He obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1990 and M.Phil. degree in 1992 at the University of Hong Kong, and Ph.D. degree in 1995 at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a Research Fellow of Computer Sciences Laboratory at Australian National University (1995-1997), and an Assistant/Associate Professor (1997-2005) of the University of Hong Kong before joining Hong Kong Baptist University. Michael is the Programme Director of the MSc Programme on Operational Research and Business Statistics and Director of the Centre for Mathematical Imaging and Vision (CMIV). He has been Associate Director of the Institute for Computational and Theoretical Studies (ICTS), and Executive Director of the Institute for Computational Mathematics (ICM) at Hong Kong Baptist University. Now he is an Adjunct Professor of Harbin Institute of Technology and of South China Normal University, an Honorary Professor of the University of Hong Kong (2005-2014), an Adjunct Research Fellow of the E-Business Technology Institute (2000-2011), He was the Public Relations Secretary (1998-2000, 2002-2006) and the Publications Secretary (2000-2002) of the Hong Kong Mathematical Society, and the Secretary of the East Asia SIAM Section (2005-2008). He is the Council Member (since 2008) of Hong Kong Institute of Science, and the Board Member (2007-2011) of China Society for Computational Mathematics. He is the Committee Member (since 2010) of System Biology Group in China Operational Research Society. He is an IEEE Senior Member. He is also the Engineering Panel Member of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council in the GRF Panel (2009-2015) and in Joint Research Schemes Panel (2016-). His research Google citations and ISI indices can be found in Google Scholar, Thomson Reuters, and Scopus.

Research Interest

Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Operations Research and Scientific Computing.