Dr. Joseph Fong--Academic activities text

1. Received Teaching Development Grant HKD75,000 on “eSurvey: a survey record based eLearning system for research students”, starting June 2008.
2. Received Teaching Development Grant HKD75,000 on “Podcasting an Online Web XML based Multimedia Teaching Presentation Archive System for Students Learning”, starting December 2007.
3. Received Strategic Research Grant HK$180,000 on “Structured Export Markup Language: An Interpretive Transformer for Exporting XML Document from Relational Database”, starting April 2008.
Received Strategic Research Grant HK$180,000 on “An XML-enabled Data Warehouse for Aggregation with XQuery”, starting March 2007 for two years.
Received Strategic Research Grant HK$180,000 on “XSD – Builder: an XML Schema Definition generator with Component and Constraints Declarative Language”, starting July 2006 for two years.
Received Strategic Research Grant for fundable CERG HK$182,114 on “The XML tree model – toward a unified view of XML schemas DTD and XSD for constraints-preserving transformation”, starting July 2005 for one year.
An Innovation and Technology Fund of HK$1,120,000 on "Non-stop Internet Computing with Replicate Relational XML Databases for Information Highway", starting August, 2004 for two years.
Received HK$225,400 grant for a research project on "Architecture of Open Object Database Connectivity Through Internet", sponsored by CityU Strategy Research Grant, starting 2000 for one and half year.
Received HK$270,000 grant for a research project on "Translating Hierarchical or Network Database Programs to Relational: A Reverse Engineering Approach", sponsored by CityU Strategy Research Grant, starting 1999 for one and half year.
Received HK$200,000 to support for a patent application by the Industry Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government Patent Application Grant.
A research grant of HK$500,000 for a research project of "Sybase Adaptive Server" sponsored by Sybase Hong Kong Ltd, starting July 1997 to June 1998 for 1 year.
A research grant of HK$282,860 for a research project on "Methodology for the Interoperability and Integration of Relational and Object-Oriented Databases", sponsored by CityU, starting 1995 for two years.
A research grant of HK$279,485 has been approved for a research project on "Methodology for Converting from Relational to Object-Oriented Database Systems: A Re-engineering Approach", sponsored by CPHK, starting 1995 for two years.
A research grant of HK$159,000 has been approved for a research project on "Methodology for Relational Database Systems Conversion", sponsored by CPHK, starting 1992 for two years.

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12/1999-Present

Chairman, Hong Kong Web Society

1/2005-6/2005

Teaching consultant at University of Macau

6/97-present

Chairman of Sybase Hong Kong User Group

3/94-6/95

Guest Consultant to Sybase Hong Kong Limited

6/89-6/1990(part time)

Aeronautical Radio, Inc, Annapolis, MD Contractor Generate N-S Charts for 150,000 lines of production Cobol programs. Feasibility study of converting from unstructured Cobol programs to structured Cobol programs.

8/87-10/87

Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, San Rafael, CA Contractor Successfully installed a IMS DC tool, Application Development Shell version 3, written in Cobol and DL/I. This tool was the system architecture for other IMS DC transactions.

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Co-chairman of the First International Conference on Hybrid Learning in 2008 (ICHL2008)
External Assessor for the validation of the franchise of the B.Sc. Honor Business Information Systems Programme; and the Joint Honors Programme in Computing & Multimedia Technology of Middlesex University to the Research Institute of Technology University at Shenzen (RITS), China
External examiner for M.Phil student Wan Po Many Polly's thesis on "Feature Extraction and Pattern Matching in Time Series Data" at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001.
External module assessor for Open University of Hong Kong MT800 Information Technology & Software Development from 2000 to 2001.
External course assessor for Open University of Hong Kong MT258 Programming and Databases from 1999 to present.
External Examiner and External module assessor for Open University of Hong Kong MT268 Commercial Information Processing from 1996 to1999.
Course Leader of MSc in Software Engineering/Information System Management of Staffordshire University, UK. Since 1996.
Regional Coordinator of Very Large Data Base International Conference in 1996.
Program committee member for the 14th International Conference on Object-Oriented and Entity- Relationship Modeling
Presented two papers on "Methodology for Scheme Translation from Hierarchical or Network to Relational Database" and "A Re-engineering Approach for Object-Oriented Database Design" to staff and graduated students at Beijing Polytechnic University, 5 January, 1995.
Regional Coordinator, the 4th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, 28-31 March 1991, December 1992 and February 1994.
Provided training to Oracle users on Two Phase Commit, Snapshot, and PL/SQL.
Presented a paper on "Methodology for system conversion to relational database", for the Hong Kong Oracle Users Group, 1993.
Provided a seminar on "Survey on CASE tools in Database Design Methodology", for the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, 1992.
Referee for reviewing papers submitted to Information and Software Technology, a UK computer journal, 1992.
- Chairman of annual International Database Conference since 1989 to present:
- 1st International Database Workshop on Conversion to Database System in 1989.
- 2nd International Database Workshop on Data Modelling Techniques in 1990.
- 3rd International Database Workshop on Distributed Database Systems in 1991.
- 4th International Database Workshop on Database Management Horizon in 1992.
- 5th International Database Workshop on Next Generation Database Systems in 1994.
- 6th International Database Workshop on Database Reengineering and Interoperability in 1995.
- 7th International Database Workshop on Multimedia, Knowledge-Based & Object-Oriented Databases in 1996.
- 8th International Database Workshop on Data Mining, Data Warehousing & Client/Server Databases in 1997.
- 9th International Database Conference on Heterogeneous and Internet Databases in 1999.
- 10th International Database Symposium on Mobile, XML and Post-relational Databases in 2000.
- 9th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on database semantics (DS-9) semantic issues in e-commerce systems, 2001.
- 1st International Web-based Learning in 2002
- 2nd International Web-based Learning in 2003
- 3rd International Web-based Learning in 2004.
- 4th International Web-based Learning in 2005.
- 5th International Web-based Learning in 2006.
- Web-based Project Competition in 2003.

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Research, Consultancy and Academic Activities