Hon Hsiao Wuen

Hon Hsiao Wuen is listed on the Faculty of Engineering staff list at The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Vice-Chancellor Visiting Professor, and the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management lists him among its honorary appointments. University press releases record his long service at Microsoft Research Asia. In August 2008, as Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, he jointly presided over the inauguration of the CUHK Ministry of Education-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Human-Centric Computing and Interface Technologies and served as its co-managing director. In November 2012, when the laboratory held a big data symposium and announced a new research centre for big data decision analytics, he again presided as Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia and director of the key laboratory, together with CUHK Vice-Chancellor Professor Joseph J. Y. Sung and co-director Professor Helen Meng. The releases also record that CUHK and Microsoft Research Asia founded the joint laboratory in 2005 and that it was granted key laboratory status by the Ministry of Education in 2008. His degrees, the year he joined Microsoft and the year he became a visiting professor at CUHK are not stated on the official pages.