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Prof. Irwin King Kuo-chin

Pro-Vice-Chancellor / Vice-President (Education)
Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director of the eLearning Innovation and Technology Centre

Curriculum Vitae

Education & Employment

Education

1993, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Southern California
1986, M.S., Computer Science, University of Southern California
1984, B.Sc., Engineering & Applied Science (Computer Science), California Institute of Technology

Employment

2025–Present, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2020–2023, Chairman, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2019–Present, Director, Centre for eLearning Innovation and Technology (ELITE), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2013–2019, Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2011–2012, Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley
2010–Present, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2010–2012, Lead Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs Research

Research Interests

Machine Learning: Bandits, classifiers, kernel methods, online learning
Social Computing: Recommender systems, social networks, NLP, crowdsourcing
Web Intelligence: Information retrieval, social media analysis
Multimedia Information Processing: Image analysis, video summarization

Honours & Awards

Honours

2024, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow
2022, Stanford World's Top 2% Scientists
2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow
International Neural Network Society (INNS) Fellow
Asia-Pacific AI Association (AAIA) Fellow
Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) Fellow
Kavli Fellow
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Lee Woo Sing College Fellow

Awards

2022, ACM WSDM Test of Time Award
2021, INNS Dennis Gabor Award
2020, ACM SIGIR Test of Time Award
2020, APNNS Outstanding Achievement Award
2019, ACM CIKM Test of Time Award
2012, JCDL Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award
ICONIP and CVPR Best Paper/Finalist Awards

Professional Services

2023–Present, Vice-President, ACM SIGWEB
2019–2020, President, International Neural Network Society (INNS)
Editorial roles: Neural Networks Journal, ACM TKDD, IJICC
Conference Organizer: WWW, ICONIP, WSDM, RecSys
Panel Member: RGC, NSFC, IEEE CIS