Associate Professor B.Sc. (Kent), Ph.D. (Cambridge) Research Interests: Distributed Virtual Environments, Computer Graphics, and Multimedia Systems

Rynson Lau received a (top) first-class B.Sc. honors degree in Computer Systems Engineering in 1988 from the University of Kent, England, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of Cambridge, England. He has been on the faculty of Durham University, City University of Hong Kong, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He also worked at the University of York on a defense project on image processing.

Rynson Lau serves on the Editorial Board of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds and International Journal of Virtual Reality, and as the Area Editor of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies in Communications Technologies for Distributed and Collaborative Learning. He has served as the Guest Editor of a number of journal special issues, including ACM Trans. on Internet Technology, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, IEEE Trans. on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications. In addition, he has also served in the committee of a number of conferences, including Program Co-chair of ACM VRST 2004 (Hong Kong), ICWL 2005 (Hong Kong), ICAT 2006 (Hangzhou, China), ICEC 2007 (Shanghai, China), and Conference Co-chair of CASA 2005 (Hong Kong), ACM VRST 2005 (Monterey, California), ICWL 2007 (Edinburgh, U.K.), IDET 2008 (Lanzhou, China).

Rynson Lau is a Senior Member of IEEE. He is currently a Guest Professor of Zhejiang Normal University and an Adjunct Professor of Shanghai University. He is on the Steering Committee of ACM VRST, CGI, CASA, and ICWL.

Research

• Publications
  • Recent Publications in Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality
  • Recent Publications in Multimedia Systems
• Guest-Editorialship of Special Issues
  • IEEE Internet Computing on "Emerging Technologies and Applications for e-Learning": November 1, 2008 (deadline)
    Guest Editors: Qing Li, Rynson Lau, Benjamin Wah, and Helen Ashman
  • IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering on "Knowledge and Data Engineering for e-Learning"
    Guest Editors: Qing Li, Rynson Lau, Dennis McLeod, and Jiming Liu
  • ACM Trans. on Internet Technology on "Internet Technologies for Distance Education"
    Guest Editors: Qing Li, Rynson Lau, Dennis McLeod, and Timothy Shih
  • IEEE Trans. on Multimedia on "Distributed Media Technologies and Applications", April 2006
    Guest Editors: Rynson Lau, Benjamin Wah, Qing Li, C.L. Liu, and Jose Encarnacao
  • Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds on "Game Technologies", Feb. 2006
    Giest Editors: Rynson Lau, Daniel Cohen-Or, Baining Guo, and John Buchanan
  • Presence on "Advances in Collaborative Virtual Environments", June 2004 issue
    Guest Editors: Rynson Lau and Michael Zyda
  • IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications on "Web Graphics", Jan./Feb. 2003 issue
    Guest Editors: Rynson Lau and Tosiyasu L. Kunii
• Full List of Editorialships
• Professional / Research Activities
• Research Projects
• Research Students
• iCT Lab (funded by PCCW / ITC / Sun)
• Forthcoming Graphics/VR/Multimedia Conferences

Teaching

• First semester teaching (2008/2009): Database Systems (CS3402)

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	Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon HONG KONG Telephone: (852) 2788-2525 rynson at cs.cityu.edu.hk

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Last updated in September 2008.