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Professor Lam, Tak Wah 林德華

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Professor
Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering

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Professor Lam, Tak Wah 林德華

Title:
Professor
Associate Dean, Faculty of Engineering

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Also Cited As:
Lam, Tak-wah

Professional Qualifications
YearAwarding InstitutionQualification
1984The Chinese University of Hong KongBSc in Computer Science
The University of WashingtonMS in Computer Science
1988The University of WashingtonPhD in Computer Science
Biography

Professor Lam graduated with a BSc in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1984 and received his MS & PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 1988. He is now a professor in the Department of Computer Science. He has served as an Associate Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 2001 to 2006.

Professor Lam loves teaching, especially in theoretical subjects. He received a teaching excellence award from the department six times in 97, 00, 02, 05, 06 and 08. While some say that the quality of students today keeps on declining, he finds it even more satisfying to teach - he believes that it is a professor's challenge to devise effective ways to inspire students.

Professor Lam's research focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms for different applications such as on-line scheduling, computational biology, and compressed indexing. After years of research, he has accumulated a long list of open problems to keep himself busy all the time, and has also published extensively in a number of prestigious international conferences and journals. Eight doctoral students have graduated under his supervision; most of them remain as academics in research institutions.

 
Honours, Awards & Prizes
AwardeesAward DateHonours / Awards / PrizesCategory
2007-05-01Teaching Excellence Award 2006: Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong
Teaching Accomplishment
2008-10-01Teaching Excellence Award: Department of Computer Science, HKU
Teaching Accomplishment
2009-12-01Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award: The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
1998-12-01Best Paper Award: The Ninth Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
Research Achievement
2006-11-01Best Teacher Award 2006: Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Teaching Accomplishment
CHEUNG, Yuen Ting
Mui, YC
2006-11-01Research Output Prize: Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong
Research Achievement
2015-03-01Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award: Faculty of Engineering, HKU
Teaching Accomplishment
2018-09-01Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award (Engineering): HKU
Research Achievement
2016-09-01Research Output Prize: HKU
Research Achievement
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Area of Expertise:
Area of Expertise (EN)Area of Expertise (ZH)
Algorithms & Bioinformatics
Spoken Languages:
Spoken Language(s) (EN)Spoken Language(s) (ZH)
English, Cantonese英語、粵語
Written Languages:
Written Language(s) (EN)Written Language(s) (ZH)
English, Chinese英文、中文
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