HENG Pheng Ann

Heng Pheng Ann is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Engineering. His departmental profile records that he received his B.Sc. in computer science from the National University of Singapore in 1985, and his M.Sc. in computer science, M.A. in applied mathematics and Ph.D. in computer science from Indiana University in 1987, 1988 and 1992 respectively. The profile records that he served as department chairman from 2014 to 2017 and as head of the graduate division from 2005 to 2008 and again from 2011 to 2016. He has directed the Virtual Reality, Visualization and Imaging Research Centre at CUHK since 1999 and the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2006. His research covers artificial intelligence and virtual reality for medical applications, surgical simulation, human-computer interaction, computer graphics and visualisation. The profile also records that he was appointed by the Ministry of Education of China as a Cheung Kong Scholar Chair Professor in 2007. His year of birth is not stated on the official page.