Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1998

From left: Prof. Irwin King, Prof. Ada Wai-chee Fu, Prof. Lai-wan Chan and Prof. Lei Xu Prof. Irwin King received his B.Sc. degree in engineering and applied science from the California Institute of Technology in 1984, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Southern California in 1988 and 1993 respectively. He joined The Chinese University in 1993. His research interests include multimedia systems 一 content-based retrieval methods for image databases; image processing— face analysis and computing; and neural networks—unsupervised learning theory for visual processing. Prof. Ada Wai-chee Fu received her B.Sc. degree in computer science from The Chinese University in 1983, and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Simon Fraser University of Canada in 1986 and 1990 respectively. She worked at Bell Northern Research from 1989 to 1993 on a wide-area distributed database project and joined The Chinese University in 1993. Her research interests include issues in distributed databases, replicated data, data mining, content-based retrieval in multimedia databases, and parallel and distributed systems. Prof. Lai-wan Chan received her BA and MA degrees in electrical science and her Ph.D. degree in information engineering from Cambridge University, England. Her research interests are the learning and modelling of artificial neural networks, and the application of neural networks in time series prediction, image recognition, Cantonese speech recognition, image database systems, and data mining. Prof. Lei Xu joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University in September 1993. Prior to that he worked as a postdoctoral/senior research associate for four years in several universities in Finland, Canada, and the USA, including Harvard and MIT. He is a past president of Asian-Pacific Neural Networks Assembly, an IEEE senior member, and an associate editor for six international journals on neural networks. He has published over 180 papers on neural networks, computer vision and pattern recognition, signal processing, and artificial intelligence. He has received several international and Chinese national academic awards. Montage 33