Dr. W.K. Chan

Dr. Wing-Kwong Chan

BEng MPhil PhD HKU
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong
Hong Kong
 
Office:

Room B6413 (near lift 8, 6/f, blue zone of the Academic Building)

Phone: +852 3442 9684
Fax: +852 3442 0503
Email: wkchan  [at]   cityu.edu.hk
Web: http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~wkchan

 

 

 

 

 


W.K. Chan is currently an assistant professor at Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. He received all his BEng in Computer Engineering, MPhil and PhD degrees from The University of Hong Kong. He was in the industry to manage and develop software applications for many  years prior to returning to The University of Hong Kong to complete his PhD study. He is currently an editorial board member of Journal of Systems and Software, and was guest editors of a few international journals. He also serves as prgoram committee members of international conferences. He was program co-chairs of QSIC'10 and AST'10. His work has been reported in over 80 articles at major publication venues including TSE, TOSEM, CACM, ICSE, FSE, ASE, WWW, ICDCS, QSIC, ICWS, and COMPSAC. He won the best paper awards from COMPSAC'04, COMPSAC'08, COMPSAC'10, and QSIC'11. His WWW09 paper was nominated as best papers. More than 10 conferences  papers have been invited to be expanded into journal versions.  His research has been funded by many competitive and external fund sources with a cumulated sum of over 18 millions Hong Kong dollars.  Dr. Chan is also an honorary assistant professor at The University of Hong Kong. 

Main Research Interests:  Solving software engineering and programming systems issues to support effective, efficient, and scalable software analysis and testing for concurent programs for Cloud Computing, Pervasive Computing, and Services Computing.

Hello, Hong Kong! Please consider submiting good papers to APSEC 2012 to be held at Hong Kong in December 2012. Submission for regular papers and emerging research track will be due at 28 May and 15 July 2012, respectively. The calls for paper is at here.

Positions:

  1. Post-Doc Fellow (1 Position)
  2. PhD student (1-2 Positions)
    • If you are interested, send all the related enquiries and CVs as well as research interests and dreams to me for discussion. Propsoective students are strongly encouraged to apply for the HKSAR PhD Fellowship as well. 
  3. Analyst Programmer/Programmer (1 Position)
    • Implementation of research tools as well as sofware app that help low-income families in Hong Kong. If you are strong in Java/C++ programming and want to challenge the conventional wisdom, this job may be suitable to you.  The position will be offered with a 1-year contact with a possibility of contract renewal subject to mutual agreement and the availablility of funding. The employment package will conform to the CityU standard.

 


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