Name Card
Emeritus Professor Chin, Francis Yuk Lun 錢玉麟
Title:
Honorary Professor
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Faculty:
Knowledge Exchange Activities
| Activity Title | Activity Type | Start Date | End Date | Member(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member of KE Working Group of HKU | Internal KE Committee | 2010-09-28 | 2010-11-30 | ||
| 2014/15 KE Impact Project Funding: KE-IP-2014/15-27: Robotics in daily life (HK$50,000) | KE Project Grant | 2014-08-29 | 2015-06-30 |
Invited Lectures & Keynote Speeches
| Title | Conference | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Meta-genomics Assembly and Binning | ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012, BGI Special Session | 2012-12-01 |
| Metagenomic Assembly and Binning | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 2012-07-01 |
| Metagenomic Assembly and Binning | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | 2012-07-01 |
| Conserved Patterns in Bioinformatics | Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU) | 2012-06-01 |
| Conserved Patterns in Bioinformatics | Xiamen University | 2012-06-01 |
| Conserved Patterns in Bioinformatics | Fudan University | 2012-04-01 |
| The Next Generation Genome Assembly Development | Faculty of Information Technology, The Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau | 2012-03-01 |
| Meta-IDBA : A de novo Assembler for Metagenomic Data | Joint Genome Institute, 2800 Mitchell Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA | 2011-10-01 |
| Conserved Patterns in Bioinformatics | School of Information Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China | 2011-06-01 |
| Practical De Novo Sequence Assembler (IDBA) and its Applications | School of Computing Seminar, School of Computing, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada | 2011-04-01 |
| Space Bounded Online Bin Packing Problem | School of Computing Science, University of Windsor, Canada | 2011-04-01 |
| A Practical De Novo Sequence Assembler (IDBA) and its Applications | School of Computing Seminar, School of Computing, Ottawa University, Canada | 2011-04-01 |
| Space-Bounded Online Bin Packing Problem | The Workshop on Combinatorial Image Processing and Algorithms (WCIPA 2011), Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India | 2011-03-01 |
| Experiences in Running a Flexible, Web-Based, and Self-Paced Course (Keynote) | The 3rd International Workshop on Education Technology and Computer Science (ETCS 2011), Wuhan, China | 2011-03-01 |
| Conserved Patterns in Bioinformatics | The 4th Workshop on Nanocomputing and Biochips (Nano-Bio 2011), Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India | 2011-03-01 |
| De Novo Sequence Assembler (IDBA) and Its Application | Department of Computer Science, The National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore | 2011-02-01 |
| Statistical Database Security (Keynote) | The 2nd International Workshop on Database Technology and Applications (DBTA 2010), Wuhan, China | 2010-11-01 |
| Conserved Patterns in Bioinformatics | Faculty of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University Of Technology, Dalian, China | 2010-10-01 |
| 1-Spaced bounded 2-Dimensional Bin Packing Problem | Faculty of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University Of Technology, Dalian, China | 2010-10-01 |
| Online Frequency Assignment Problem in Cellular Network Communication | Faculty of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University Of Technology, Dalian, China | 2010-10-01 |
| Conserved Patterns in Bioinformatics | Department of Computer Science, King's College | 2010-04-01 |
| Finding Conserved Patterns in Bioinformatics | The 2nd Mainland and Hong Kong Workshop on Bioinformatics | 2010-03-23 |
| Conserved Patterns in Bioinformatics | Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool | 2010-03-01 |
| Space Bounded Online Bin Packing Problem | The 2nd International Workshop on Education Technology and Computer Science (ETCS 2010) (Keynote Speeches) | 2010-03-01 |
| Online Frequency Assignment Problem in Cellular Network Communication | School of Computer Science, University of Windsor | 2010-01-01 |
| Conserved Patterns in Bioinformatics | School of Computer Science, University of Windsor | 2009-10-01 |
| Conserved Patterns in Bioinformatics | Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada | 2009-07-01 |
| Online Frequency Assignment Problem in Cellular Network Communication | Department of Computing Seminar Series, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong | 2009-05-01 |
| Online Frequency Assignment Problem in Cellular Network Communication | The International Conference on Networks Security, Wireless Communications and Trusted Computing (NSWCTC 2009) | 2009-04-01 |
| Finding Common Patterns in DNA Sequences (Plenary Speaker) | International Symposium on Education and Computer Science (ECS 2009) | 2009-03-01 |
| Editor | Conserved Patterns in Bioinformatics - Joint Workshop of Beijing, Hong Kong and Kyoto on Computational Mathematics, Computer and Systems Sciences (CMCSS 2009) | 2009-03-01 |
| Predicting Protein Complexes from PPI Data | ASI Symposium on Bioinformatics and Data Mining | 2009-02-01 |
| Online Frequency/Code Assignment Problem in Cellular Network Communication | The Annual Conference of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS 2008) | 2008-09-01 |
| Online Tree Node Assignment Problem (Keynote) | The 2nd Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA'08) | 2008-08-01 |
| Online Frequency Assignment Problem in Cellular Network Communication | King's College | 2008-07-01 |
| Online Frequency Assignment in Wireless Communication Networks | York University | 2008-06-01 |
| A Clustering-Based Approach for Finding Motif Pairs from Protein Interaction Data (Keynote) | 2008 International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2008) | 2008-05-01 |
| Online Frequency Assignment Problem in Cellular Network Communication | Dept. of Information Management of Shih Hsin University | 2008-04-01 |
| Online Frequency Assignment Problem in Cellular Network Communication (Keynote) | The 25th Workshop on Combinatorial Mathematics and Computation Theory | 2008-04-01 |
| Online Frequency Assignment in Wireless Communication Networks (Distinguished Lecture in Theoretical Computer Science) | Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Tsinghua University | 2007-11-01 |
| Finding Motifs Computationally (Distinguished Lecture in Theoretical Computer Science) | Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Tsinghua University | 2007-11-01 |
| Finding Motifs Computationally | National Tsing-Hua Univeristy | 2007-10-01 |
| Finding Motifs Computationally | Computational Biology Seminar, Dept of Computer Science, University of Toronto | 2007-09-01 |
| Finding Motifs Computationally | Department of Computer Science, University of Alberta | 2007-07-01 |
| Online Frequency Assignment in Wireless Communication Networks (Keynote) | The 13th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2007) | 2007-07-01 |
| Finding Motifs Computationally | The 2nd BioDM Workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Applications (BioDM 2007) (keynote) | 2007-05-01 |
| Finding Motifs Computationally | CS Dept of Zhejiang University | 2007-05-01 |
| Online Frequency Assignment in Wireless Communication Networks | Math Dept of Zhejiang University | 2007-05-01 |
| Finding Motifs Computationally | Fudan University | 2007-05-01 |
| Discovering Motifs with Transcription Factor Domain Knowledge | The Third Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Regulatory Genomics | 2006-07-01 |
| Recent Progresses on the Planted (l,d)-motif Problem | The 3rd Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC 2006) | 2006-05-01 |
| Finding Exact Optimal Motif in Matrix Representation by Partitioning | National Taiwan University | 2005-11-01 |
| Finding Exact Optimal Motif in Matrix Representation by Partitioning | National University of Singapore | 2005-11-01 |
| Recent Progresses on the Planted (l,d)-motif Problem | Institute of Information Science (IIS), Academia Sinica | 2005-11-01 |
| Discovering Patterns in a Set of Sequences (Motif Finding) | Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) | 2004-03-01 |
| 「繽紛展藝嘉年華」暨資訊科技學習中心開幕禮 | 2003-02-01 | |
| Database Security – Interface Control | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 2003-02-01 |
| Database Security – Interface Control | ACM Postgrad Research Day | 2003-01-01 |
| Online Scheduler with Partial Value | National University of Singapore | 2002-12-01 |
| Online Scheduler with Partial Value | Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland | 2002-11-01 |
| Online Scheduler with Partial Value - an Application to Network Transmission | The 3rd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT'2002) | 2002-09-01 |
| 「資訊科技挑戰獎勵計劃」2001-02年度金章頒獎典禮 | 2002-06-01 | |
| Issues and Opportunities of .hk Registration | ACM Postgraduate Research Day | 2002-02-01 |
Editorship
| Period | Position | Journal / Conference |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 - 2014 | Managing Editor | International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science |
| 2001 - 2014 | Managing Editor | International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science |
| 2012 | Editor | Information Processing Letters (until Dec 2012) |
| 2011 | Managing Editors | International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science |
| 2011 | Editor | Chinese Journal of Software |
| 2011 | Editor | Information Processing Letters |
| 2009 - 2010 | Editor | Current Bioinformatics |
| 2008 - 2009 | Editor | Journal of Information Processing Letters |
| 2008 - 2009 | Editor | Chinese Journal of Advanced Software Research |
| 2008 - 2009 | Editor | International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages |
| 2009 | Editor | HKIE Transactions Review Panel |
| 2006 - 2008 | Journal Editor Of Current Bioinformatics | Current Bioinformatics |
| 2001 - 2007 | Journal Editor Of Chinese Journal Of Advanced Software Research | Chinese Journal of Advanced Software Research |
| 2001 - 2007 | Journal Editor Of Hkie Transactions Review Panel | HKIE Transactions Review Panel |
| 2001 - 2007 | Journal Editor Of International Journal Of Computer Processing Of Oriental Languages | International Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages |
| 2001 - 2007 | Journal Editor Of Journal Of Information Processing Letters | Journal of Information Processing Letters |
Community Service
| Start Date | End Date | Position | Type | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-11-01 | Member, Academic Visit | O | Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAA) | |
| 2002-03-01 | Member, Academic Visit | O | Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAA) | |
| 2003-01-01 | Member, Judges Panel | O | Whiz Kids Express Weekly | |
| 1995-01-01 | 2001-01-01 | Member | O | Research Grants Council (RGC), University Grants Committee (UGC) |
| 2002-04-01 | Member, Judges Panel | O | Leisure and Cultural Services Department | |
| 2002-01-01 | 2004-01-01 | Advisor | O | Hong Kong Information Technology Industry Council (HKITIC), Federation of Hong Kong Industries |
| 2014-09-01 | 2015-09-01 | external examiner | O | HK Institute of Technology |
| 2000-06-01 | Convenor | O | Research Grants Council (RGC), University Grants Committee (UGC) | |
| 2003-04-01 | Member, Judges Panel | O | Whiz Kids Express | |
| 1997-03-01 | 2002-07-01 | Member | O | Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee (IIAC), Information Technology and Broadcasting Bureau (ITBB) / Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) |
| 2000-01-01 | Advisor | O | Exam Committee, Information Security and Forensics Society | |
| 2014-12-01 | 2016-12-01 | Director | O | HK Internet Registration Corporation Limited and HK Domian Name Registration Company Limited |
| 2000-01-01 | 2002-01-01 | Member | O | Task force on IT Manpower (IIAC), Information Technology and Broadcasting Bureau (ITBB) / Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) |
| 2006-01-01 | Convenor, Computer Science/Information Technology Panel | O | Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), University Grants Committee (UGC) | |
| 1999-01-01 | 2004-01-01 | Member, Selection Committee | O | Research Grants Council (RGC), University Grants Committee (UGC) |
| 2003-04-01 | Member, Judges Panel | O | Hong Kong Web Society | |
| 2000-01-01 | 2006-09-01 | Assessor | O | Research Grants Council (RGC), University Grants Committee (UGC) |
| 2001-11-01 | Institutional Review Panel Member | O | Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAA) | |
| 1998-01-01 | 2002-01-01 | Member | O | Working Group of Facilitations and Promotion (IIAC), Information Technology and Broadcasting Bureau (ITBB) / Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) |
| 1998-01-01 | 2001-01-01 | Advisor | O | Tech Centre, HK ITCC |
| 1992-01-01 | 2000-01-01 | Member | O | IT Projects Vetting Committee, Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) |
| 2002-02-01 | 2008-03-01 | Admission Panel Member | O | Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) |
| 1991-01-01 | Vetting Committee Member | O | Hong Kong Association for Computer Education | |
| 2002-04-01 | Institutional Review Panel Member | O | Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAA) | |
| 2006-01-01 | 2007-01-01 | Member | O | Advisory Committee, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| 2008-04-01 | 2014-03-01 | Museum Expert Adviser (Science and Technology) | O | Leisure and Cultural Services Department |
| 1998-01-01 | 1999-01-01 | Steering Group Member | O | Consultancy Study on the Manpower and Training Needs of the Information Technology Sector |
| 2000-01-01 | 2006-01-01 | Member | O | Information Discipline Advisory Panel, Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (HKIE) |
| 2000-01-01 | 2006-09-01 | Assessor | O | Research Grants Council (RGC), University Grants Committee (UGC) |
| 2014-01-01 | 2024-01-01 | member | O | Mainland-HK Joint Postdoctoral Fellows Program, HK Scholars Program |
| 2000-01-01 | 2001-01-01 | Member | O | Advisory Committee, Code of Practice for Recognized Certification Authorities, ITS |
| 1991-01-01 | 2009-08-01 | Member | O | Board of Management, Joint Universities Computer Centre Ltd. (JUCC) |
| 1999-11-01 | 2000-07-01 | Member | O | Task force on Review on the Administration and Assignment of Internet Domain Names and Internet Protocol Addresses in Hong Kong (IIAC), Information Technology and Broadcasting Bureau (ITBB) / Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) |
| 1986-01-01 | 1999-01-01 | Member | O | Computer Studies Subject Committee, Curriculum Development Council, Education Department |
| 2000-01-01 | Member, Computer Science/Information Technology Panel | O | Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), University Grants Committee (UGC) | |
| 2006-03-01 | Chairman, Judges Panel | O | Hong Kong ICT | |
| 2002-05-01 | External Examiner | O | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | |
| 2013-04-01 | 2013-04-01 | Panel Member | O | Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ) - Hang Seng Management College, Combined Programme Validation for BMSIM and BBA-FA |
| 1992-02-01 | 2000-02-01 | Director of the Council | O | Applied Research Council (ARC) |
| 2014-11-01 | 2026-11-01 | external advisor (academic) | O | College of International Education, HKBU |
| 2001-10-01 | Institutional Review Panel Member | O | Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAA) | |
| 2010-07-01 | 2016-06-01 | Director | O | HK Deposit Protection Board |
| 2001-10-01 | Institutional Review Panel Member | O | Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAA) | |
| 2000-04-01 | 2008-03-01 | Honorary Advisor (Science and Technology) | O | Leisure and Cultural Services Department |
| 2003-01-01 | External Programme Assessor | O | Open University of Hong Kong | |
| 2006-03-01 | Revalidation Panel Member | O | Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAA) | |
| 2006-10-01 | Grand Judging Panel Member | O | Hong Kong ICT | |
| 1998-02-01 | 2000-02-01 | Member | O | Promotion & Monitoring Sub-Committee, Quality Education Fund (QEF) |
| 2002-07-01 | Institutional Review Panel Member | O | Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAA) | |
| 2006-01-01 | 2008-01-01 | Advisor | O | Services Advisor Committee, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) |
| 1996-01-01 | Member | O | Working Party on Accreditation Criteria for Computer Science, Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (HKIE) | |
| 2002-03-01 | Member, Judges Panel | O | Civil Service Bureau and Civil Service Training and Development Institute |