Curriculum Vitae
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Dr. Andy Chun received the B.Sc. degree from
Illinois Institute of Technology
in 1981, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign in 1983
and 1987, respectively. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Chun
joined Prof. Patrick Winston's
MIT
high-tech spin-off,
Ascent Technology
Inc. as a Senior Scientist. Ascent is an AI (Artificial Intelligence) company that provides R &D services on the
development of mission critical resource scheduling/allocation systems for
the US Department of Defense as well as airlines/airports around the world.
Dr. Chun returned to Hong Kong in 1989 to join
the Information Engineering Department of the
Chinese University of Hong Kong
as Lecturer.
He later worked for IF Computer, a German
software firm, as Managing Director of their HK office.
Dr. Chun joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at the City
University of Hong Kong in March 1994 and later transferred to the
Department of Computer Science in 2001 where he acts
as the Program Leader
for the flagship
B.Sc. Computer Science
program as well as the Group Leader for the
Software Engineering Subject Group and the
Software Engineering Research Group.
He is jointly a Consultant for the
CityU Professional Services Limited
and an
active IT consultant and technologist in the Asia-Pacific region.
He has worked on numerous
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems for companies like
the Mass Transit Railway, Hospital
Authority, Airport Authority, etc. to maximize efficiency/productivity and
streamline business processes. He is the only person to have
been awarded 5 times the "Innovative Applications of AI Award" from the
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
in years 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007 and 2008. In 2005, he was awarded an "IT
Excellence Award" from the Hong Kong Computer Society. In 2006, he
received an "Asia-Pacific ICT Award" (APICTA) for the "Best Industrial Application."
He is also an External Examiner for the
Hong Kong Institute of Education
and the
Open University of Hong Kong.
Research Interests
His research interests are in Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Object Technologies, Software Architectures and Web technologies. He is particularly interested in solving Scheduling, Optimization, Resource Allocation and Datamining problems. Recently, his research focused on Knowledge Management and Collaboration with the use of Weblog and Wiki technologies.
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