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Biography
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Wan-Chi Siu received the
Associateship from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1975, the MPhil
degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1977, and the PhD degree from the
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London,
London, U.K., in 1984. He joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong
Kong, as a Lecturer in 1980 and has been Chair Professor in the Department
of Electronic and Information Engineering (EIE) since 1992. He was Head of
EIE and subsequently Dean of the Engineering Faculty between 1994 and 2002.
Prof. Siu is currently the Director of the Centre for Signal Processing of
the same university. He is an expert in digital signal processing,
specializing in fast algorithms and video coding, and has published 400
research papers, more than 170 of which appeared in international journals,
such as the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE
PROCESSING. He is a coeditor of
the book Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management (Springer,
2003). His work on fast computational algorithms (such as DCT) and motion
estimation algorithms has been well received by academic peers, with good
citation records, and a number of which are now being used in hi-tech
industrial applications, such as modern video surveillance and video codec
design for high-definition television systems of some million dollar
contract consultancy works. His research interests include transforms,
image coding, transcoding, 3-D videos, wavelets, and computational aspects
of pattern recognition.
Prof. Siu is a Vice President, Chairman of Conference
Board and a core member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal
Processing Society (2012–2014). He is currently an Associate Editor
for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING and a member of the editorial board of a number of
other journals such as Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for
Signal, Image, Video Technology. He was a Guest Editor and an Associate
Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS. He is a very popular
lecturing staff member within the University, whereas outside the
University, he has been a keynote speaker of more than ten
international/national conferences in the recent ten years and an invited
speaker of numerous professional events, such as the IEEE CPM 2002 (keynote
speaker, Taipei, Taiwan); IEEE Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech
Processing 2004 (keynote speaker, Hong Kong); IEEE International Conference
on Information, Communications & Signal Processing 2007 (invited
speaker, Singapore); and IEEE International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech, and Signal Processing 2008 (keynote speaker, Zhenjiang). He is the
organizer of many international conferences, including the MMSP’08
(Australia) as General Co-Chair, and three IEEE Society sponsored flagship
conferences: ISCAS’1997 as Technical Program Chair; ICASSP’2003
as the General Chair; and recently ICIP’2010 as the General Chair
(2010 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, which was held in
Hong Kong, 26-29 September 2010). He is a member (2010–2012) of the
Engineering Panel and also was a member of the Physical Sciences and
Engineering Panel (1991–1995) of the Research Grant Council, Hong
Kong Government. In 1993–1994, he chaired the first Engineering and
Information Technology Panel of the Research Assessment Exercise to assess
the research quality of 19 departments from all universities in Hong Kong
and initiated to set up a set of objective indicators to assess the basic
research quality of academia, which gives substantial impact to the
research culture in Hong Kong for the recent 18 years. He is also the
recipient of a number of awards, including the Distinguished Presenter
Award (1997, HK), IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000, USA), the Best Teacher
Award (2003, HK), the Outstanding Award in Research (2003, HK), Plaque for
Exceptional Leadership (2003, IEEE SPCB, USA), and Honorable Mention Winner
Award (Pattern Recognition, 2004, USA). Prof. Siu is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow
of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET, UK), Fellow of the
Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE, UK) and Fellow of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE, USA).
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