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Kam-yiu Lam received the B.Sc. (Hons) degree on Computer Studies with distinction and Ph.D. degree from the City University of Hong Kong in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. Since joining the City University, he has taught courses on performance evaluation, operating systems and distributed database systems. Starting from 1997, he is the admission tutor of the department.

    He has served as a program committee member and reviewer for several international conferences on real-time systems and databases, including the International Workshop on Real-time Databases, the Real-time Systems Symposium, the Real-time Technology and Applications Symposium, the International Workshops on Active, Real-time and Temporal Database Systems and the International Conference on Engineering of Complexity Computer Systems. He is also a reviewer for some journals including the IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Real-Time Systems, the Journal of System Architecture, The Computer Journal, IEE Proceedings, the Information Processing Letters and the Journal of Systems and Software. His current research interests are real-time database systems, real-time active database systems, mobile computing and distributed multimedia systems. He was the Guest Editor of the Journal of Systems and Software on the special issue of Real-time Active Database Systems. Dr. Lam is a member of the IEEE.