CHAN Lai Wan

Chan Lai Wan is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her departmental profile records that she took her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Cambridge, where she held the Prince Philip Scholarship and the King's College Studentship, and that she worked in the Speech, Vision and Robotics Group in Information Engineering led by the late Professor Frank Fallside. Her research covers financial engineering, neural networks and computational intelligence, with applications in artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, and databases and data mining. The profile notes that she co-founded IDEAL, the International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, and was programme chair of IDEAL'98 and co-chair of IDEAL2000; she has also chaired the IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Chapter and the governing board of the Asia-Pacific Neural Network Assembly, and served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. University records further show that she headed the Division of Computer Science and Engineering from 1998 to 2002 and was Associate Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Engineering from 2004 to 2013. She is listed as Emeritus Professor on the Faculty of Engineering staff list.