Dr. Howard Leung B.Sc. (McGill), M. Sc., Ph.D. (CMU)
Howard Leung is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. He received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University, Canada, in 1998, the M.Sc. degree and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999 and 2003 respectively. Throughout his graduate studies, he was with the Advanced Multimedia Processing Lab.
His current research interests include computer vision and multimedia, 3D human motion capture, analysis, recognition, retrieval, prediction and synthesis, action-quality assessment and sports-video analysis, Chinese handwriting analysis and technology-enhanced learning, and metaverse and immersive learning applications. At present, he is the Treasurer of the Hong Kong Web Society.
He currently serves as the BScCS Major Leader in the Department of Computer Science, and as the Outreach and Student Affairs Coordinator for the College of Engineering. He also serves as the BScCS Academic Advisor, where he advises undergraduate cohorts on study progress, internships, final-year projects, exchange and university life.