Ching Pak-Chung, holder of the Silver and Bronze Bauhinia Stars, is a Hong Kong electronic engineer. He earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering and electronics at the University of Liverpool, which later awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science, and worked at Cable and Wireless before returning to Hong Kong. His research covers adaptive digital signal processing, time-delay estimation and target localisation, blind signal estimation and separation, automatic speech recognition, speaker recognition and speech emotion, as well as code-mixing between Cantonese and English. He returned to Hong Kong in 1982 to teach at the then Hong Kong Polytechnic and joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Department of Electronic Engineering in 1984, heading the department from 1995 to 1997 and serving as Dean of Engineering from 1997 to 2003 and Master of Shaw College from 2004 to 2008. From August 2006 he was a Pro-Vice-Chancellor, stepping down in 2014; during his term the university moved to the four-year '3-3-4' system, and he oversaw its campus master plan and took part in founding CUHK Shenzhen, where he headed the research institute. He is now a Research Professor of Electronic Engineering and Director of the Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE, the IET, the HKIE and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences, and an honorary fellow of his college.
A CUHK teacher since 1984, Ching Pak-Chung led its Faculty of Engineering and Shaw College and served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, steering the campus master plan during the '3-3-4' reform and helping to found CUHK Shenzhen, leaving a concrete mark on electronic-engineering research and university development in Hong Kong.
Achievements
- 1998 · Became Dean of Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, serving until 2003.
- 2004 · Became Master of Shaw College at CUHK, serving until 2008.
- 2006 · Was appointed a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, overseeing the campus master plan under the '3-3-4' reform.