Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1993

Dr. Siu-chi Hsu Lecturer in Computer Science A f t e r r e c e i v i ng his B.Sc.(Eng.) degree w i t h first class honours from the University of Hong Kong in 1986’ Dr. Siu-chi Hsu took up M.Phil. studies in off-line robot programming and graphics simulation in HKU ' s Industrial Engineering Department. He then went to Cambridge to attend a course leading to the postgraduate diploma in computer science and graduated wit h distinction in 1988, being top of his class and receiving a senior honorary scholarship from Gonville and Caius College. He continued to conduct research into computer graphics on a Commonwealth Scholarship and a British Telecom Scholarship, and finished his doctoral thesis on computer support for large character se t languages in late 1991. Dr. Hsu received his Ph.D. in May 1992 and joined the University's Department of Computer Science as lecturer in August the same year. Dr. Hsu has been keenly interested in the visual arts since childhood, and that may explain why his academic pursuits are also related to computer graphics and animation. Dr. Ho Puay-peng Lecturer in Architecture Dr. Ho Puay-peng, a Singaporean, read architecture at the University of Edinburgh from 1978 to 1984. After graduation, he worked as an architect in a private firm in Edinburgh for some time before returning to Singapore to work in the Housing and Development Board. In 1987, Dr. Ho embarked on his Ph.D. research at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University o f London. His thesis was about Buddhist monasteries i n the Sui and Tang dynasties and he spent nine months in China conducting research in national libraries in Beijing as well as v i s i t i ng architectural monuments in north China, looking into both literary and pictorial sources such as Dunhuang paintings. Before joining the University as lecture r in architecture, Dr. Ho taught courses on Chines e art jointly organized by the SOAS and Sotheby's, London. He also gave lectures on Chinese architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University of London, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Dr. Ho is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. His main research interest is sacred architecture, in particular the iconography of architecture, i.e. how religious dogmas are related to architectural form. He has published a number of articles on these subjects, and is now workin g on a project to comprehensively document pictorial evidence of architecture in Chinese art. Dr. Ho is married, with two daughters. Dr. Peter B. Sullivan Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics Dr. Sullivan graduated B.Sc. from the University of Manchester Honours School o f Physiology in 1975, where he gained basic grounding in scientific research. He got his M.B. Ch.B degree in 1980, and spent two years holding various residential posts i n adult medicine. These included a six-month sojourn as resident medical officer in a hospital in northern India, where he first developed an interest in tropical paediatrics. Dr. Sullivan started his formal postgraduate paediatric training in 1982 in a district general PROFILES 17