WONG Kam Fai, MH

Wong Kam Fai is a Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong; the Faculty of Engineering staff list records the suffix MH, the Medal of Honour, after his name. His departmental profile records that he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1987 and was a postdoctoral researcher at Heriot-Watt University, UniSys in Scotland and ECRC in Germany. His research focuses on Chinese computing, databases and information retrieval. The profile records more than 250 technical papers in international journals, conferences and books; he was President of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing in 2015-2016, President of the Governing Board of the Chinese Language Computer Society in 2015-2017, President of the Hong Kong Information Technology Joint Council from 2007 to 2014, and Vice President of VLDB School China from 2005 to 2013. The profile also records that he is the founding Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Processing and a former associate editor of the International Journal on Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, and that he is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a senior member of IEEE, and a Fellow of BCS, IET and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. The departmental page does not state his year of birth or the year he joined CUHK.