WAH Wan Sang Benjamin, JP

Benjamin Wan-sang Wah is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. A university press release dated 14 April 2009 records that the Council appointed him Provost for a term of five years, together with an appointment as Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; at the time he was the Franklin W. Woeltge Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The release records that his expertise covers non-linear programming, multimedia signal processing and artificial intelligence. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has served as President of the IEEE Computer Society, and has received that society's W. Wallace McDowell Award, Tsutomu Kanai Award and Richard E. Merwin Distinguished Service Award. The release also records his long association with CUHK: he was Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at CUHK in 1998-99 and received an Exemplary Teaching Award that year, served as an adjunct professor in the department from 1999 to 2003, has been a member of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council since 2005 and has chaired its engineering panel since 2006. His year of birth is not stated on the official page.