Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1992

Profiles Dr . L . M. Chu Lecturer in Biology Dr. L.M. Chu obtained from The Chinese University of Hong Kong his degree of B.Sc. (Hons) in 1981 and M.Phil, in 1983. He was awarded a Croucher Foundation Scholarship in 1984 to continue his research in the Botany Department of the University of Liverpool, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1988. Before joining The Chinese University, he was a lecturer in the Biology Department of the Hong Kong Baptist College. Dr. Chu's research interests cover the bioconversion of organic wastes, the ecology and reclamation of wasteland, biological wastewater treatment, and heavy metal pollution. He is currently working on vermiculture in different agro-industrial wastes, the ecology and revegetation of fuel ash lagoons, and the use of microalgae, fungi or aquatic macrophytes for landfill leachate purification. Dr. Chu is at present honorary secretary of the Institute of Biology (Hong Kong Branch). Dr . Leung Ho-fung Lecturer in Computer Science Dr. Leung received his B.Sc. and M.Phil, degrees in computer science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985 and 1988 respectively. He went to London in 1989 to pursue further studies at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, and earned his Ph.D. degree in computing in 1992. Dr. Leung joined the Department of Computer Science in January 1992 as lecturer. His current research interests are concurrent logic programming, constraint logic programming and distributed artificial intelligence. Dr . Sophie S.F. Leung Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics Dr. Leung graduated from the Medical Faculty of the University of Hong Kong in 1976 and received postgraduate training in paediatrics in Hong Kong and the UK. She was qualified MRCP in 1981 and obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine from The Chinese University in 1990. Dr. Leung first joined The Chinese University as lecturer in paediatrics in 1984. Her clinical speciality is childhood growth disorders in relation to nutrition and endocrinology, and as head of the Growth and Nutrition Research Team in the Department of Paediatrics, she has conducted many studies on the growth and nutrition of Chinese infants and children. Some of the research has been carried out in collaboration with organizations in Britain and mainland China, and Dr. Leung was awarded a Croucher Foundation Scholarship in 1987 for her work. Dr. Leung is married, with two children. PROFILES 30