Reynold Cheng
Professor Reynold Cheng 鄭振剛
Professor Reynold Cheng 鄭振剛
Dr. Reynold Cheng is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science in the University of Hong Kong. He was an Assistant Professor in HKU in 2008-11. He received his BEng ( Computer Engineering ) in 1998, and MPhil ( Computer Science and Information Systems ) in 2000, from the Department of Computer Science in the University of Hong Kong. He then obtained his MSc and PhD from Department of Computer Science of Purdue University in 2003 and 2005 respectively. Dr. Cheng was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University during 2005-08. He was a visiting scientist in the Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems in the University of Stuttgart during the summer of 2006.
Dr. Cheng was granted an Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2011-12 by HKU. He was the recipient of the 2010 Research Output Prize in the Department of Computer Science of HKU. He also received the U21 Fellowship in 2011. He received the Performance Reward in years 2006 and 2007 awarded by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is the Chair of the Department Research Postgraduate Committee, and was the Vice Chairperson of the ACM ( Hong Kong Chapter ) in 2013. He is a member of the IEEE, the ACM, the Special Interest Group on Management of Data ( ACM SIGMOD ), and the UPE (Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society). He is an editorial board member of TKDE, DAPD and IS, and was a guest editor for TKDE, DAPD, and Geoinformatica. He is an area chair of ICDE 2017, a senior PC member for DASFAA 2015, PC co-chair of APWeb 2015, area chair for CIKM 2014, area chair for Encyclopedia of Database Systems, program co-chair of SSTD 2013, and a workshop co-chair of ICDE 2014. He received an Outstanding Service Award in the CIKM 2009 conference. He has served as PC members and reviewer for top conferences (e.g., SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, KDD, ICDM, and CIKM) and journals (e.g., TODS, TKDE, VLDBJ, IS, and TMC).
| Year | Awarding Institution | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | The University of Hong Kong | B.Eng. in Computer Engineering |
| 2000 | The University of Hong Kong | M.Phil. in Computer Science and Information Systems |
| 2003 | Purdue University | M.Sc. |
| 2005 | Purdue University | Ph.D. |
Dr. Reynold Cheng is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science in the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He received his BEng (Computer Engineering) in 1998, and MPhil (Computer Science and Information Systems) in 2000 from HKU. He then obtained his MSc and PhD degrees from Department of Computer Science of Purdue University in 2003 and 2005.
Dr. Cheng was granted an Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2011-12 by HKU. He was the recipient of the 2010 Research Output Prize in Department of Computer Science of HKU. He also received the Universitas 21 Fellowship in 2011. He was the Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2005 to 2008, where he received two Performance Awards. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, ACM SIGMOD, and UPE. He has served on the program committees and review panels for leading database conferences and journals like SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, and TODS. He is on the editorial board of IS and DAPD, and is a guest editor for a special issue in TKDE. He is the co-chair of SSTD 2013, and the workshop co-chair of ICDE 2014. He received an Outstanding Service Award in the CIKM 2009 conference. His research interests include database management, as well as querying and mining of uncertain data.
| Awardees | Award Date | Honours / Awards / Prizes | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
Cheung, MK | 2022-09-01 | Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2022: Faculty of Law, the University of Hong Kong | Others |
| 2010-07-01 | Research Output Prize in Department of Computer Science, on the journal article entitled “Scalable processing of snapshot and continuous nearest-neighbor queries over one-dimensional uncertain data”, with a monetary award of HK$60,000, awarded by the Faculty of Engineering, HKU, 2010: Faculty of Engineering, HKU | Research Achievement | |
| 2019-04-01 | Outstanding reviewer award: 35th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE 2019) | Research Achievement | |
| 2018-06-01 | Fellow of Institute of Transport Studies: the University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2010-01-01 | HKU Engineering Postdoctoral Fellow Programme (2010-12): University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2009-11-01 | Outstanding Service Award (as Registration Chair), in the ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 2-6, 2009, Hong Kong: CIKM 2009 Conference | Others | |
| 2007-01-01 | 2006 Performance Reward Scheme: Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Research Achievement | |
| 2011-12-01 | William Mong Visiting Research Fellowship 2011-12, with Prof. Divyakant Agrawal from University of California, Santa Barbara, on “An Uncertain Database System for Cloud Environments”: Faculty of Engineering, the University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2008-01-01 | 2007 Performance Reward Scheme: Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Research Achievement | |
| 2013-03-01 | Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2011-12 (awarded a research funding of HKD $300,000 and 1 Type B student): University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2011-05-01 | Universitas 21 Fellowship 2011-12 (for visiting the National University of Singapore in July-August 2011, with an award amount of HKD 50,000): University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2006-06-01 | Microsoft sponsorship for attendance to the 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies in PET 2006: Microsoft Corporation | Research Achievement | |
| 2004-08-01 | 4. Travel Grant Award for 1st Intl. Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN) in VLDB 2004: DMSN workshop | Research Achievement | |
| 2011-11-01 | Prize Presentation Ceremony 2010-11, for recognition of excellence in research activities: Faculty of Engineering, University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement | |
| 2018-06-01 | William Mong Visiting Research Fellowship 2018-19, with Prof. Berti-Equille from University of Aix-Marseille, France, on “OGC: On-demand Graph Cleaning”.: Faculty of Engineering | Research Achievement | |
| 2016-06-01 | William Mong Visiting Research Fellowship 2015-16, with Prof. H. V. Jagadish from University of Michigan, on “Data Ethics: A Socio-Technical Framework for Doing Big Data Right”: Faculty of Engineering, the University of Hong Kong | Research Achievement |
| Term Period | Position | Professional Societies |
|---|---|---|
| 05/2005 - 08/2015 | member | ACM |
| 05/2005 - 08/2015 | member | IEEE |
| 07/2011 - 06/2015 | member | HKITJC |
| 2018 - current | fellow | Institute of Transport Studies, the University of Hong Kong |
| Area of Expertise (EN) | Area of Expertise (ZH) |
|---|---|
| Uncertainty management | 不確定資訊處理 |
| Data mining | 數據挖掘 |
| Database | 數據庫 |
| Spoken Language(s) (EN) | Spoken Language(s) (ZH) |
|---|---|
| English, Cantonese | 英語、粵語 |
| Written Language(s) (EN) | Written Language(s) (ZH) |
|---|---|
| English, Chinese | 英文、中文 |
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