Overview of Department
2016/17
About the Department
HKU Department of
Computer Science
 formally established within the Faculty of
Engineering in 1988
 the youngest and fastest developing department in
the Faculty
 Computer studies courses were first taught in HKU
in 1975
 the first bachelor degree in Computer Studies was
offered under the Faculty of Science in 1982
 the MSc(CompSc) programme was first offered in
1991
Rank 12th globally in 2015
Rank 14th globally in 2014
Rank 10th globally in 2013
Repeated Recognitions
in HKU and Engineering Faculty
HKU Outstanding Teaching Award x 2
HKU Outstanding Researcher Award x 2
HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Award x 2
HKU Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award
Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award x 5
Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award x 2
Academic Staff
Establishment
Academic Staff
 Academic Staff Profile
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Professor (8)
Associate Professor (11)
Assistant Professor / Lecturer (6)
Research Assistant Professor (1)
total: 26
 Head, Deputy Head, Programme Directors /
Coordinators, Research Group Leaders, …
Research Strategies
and Performance
Research Groups & Focus
 Algorithms and Bioinformatics (5)
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Algorithms: Design & Analysis of Algorithm, Scheduling, Metric Space
Embedding, Data Privacy, etc.
Bioinformatics: Motif Discovery, Genome Assembly, & Alignment, etc.
 Quantum Information Science (1)
 Programming languages (1)
 Data and Software Engineering (4)
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Data Mining, Uncertainty Database, Spatial Database, Cloud Database
Security, Big Data Analytics, Software Testing, etc.
 HCI, Graphics and Computer Vision (5)
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Geometrical Model, Visualization, Animation, Image Processing,
Computer Vision, Texture Mapping and HCI, etc.
 Information Security and Forensics (2)
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Network Security, Computer Forensics, etc.
 Systems and Networking (4)
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Parallel and Distributed Systems, Grid & Cluster Computing, P2P
Network, Cloud Computing, etc.
Research Output
 Research Grants received (past 5 years)
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External: HK$136 M
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Total RGC awards: $42.4 M
Total ITF awards: $60.2 M
Internal: HK$10 M
 Research Output (past 5 years)
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310 journal papers
376 conference papers
48 MPhil graduates
88 PhD graduates
Interdisciplinary and
Applied Research
 Interdisciplinary
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Civil Engineering: Waterman project, Environmental Impact
Assessment
Law: Law & Technology Center
Mechanical: Thermal environment
Chemistry: GPU-Cluster for Quantum Simulation
EEE: Mobile Social Network, …
 Applied Research – top in HKU in ITF funding
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CECID: eCommerce and B2B Technology, …
CISC: Security and Forensics, …
Bioinformatics : Genome Assembly, Alignment, …
Graphics and Vision: Video Processing, Video Fusion, Image
Processing, …
System : China National Grid, Jessica project, …
 Acquired about HK$60.2 M of ITF grants in the past 5 years
International Collaboration
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IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre
Microsoft Research Asia
University of California, Berkeley
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Tsinghua University
BGI (Beijing Genomics Institute)
Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology
National University of Singapore
King’s College London
Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC)
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Professionalism and
Industry Relation
 Conference Chair/PC Chair
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Database: SSTD 2013, ER 2012, PAKDD 2011, CIKM 2009,
SSTD 2009, SSDBM 2008, PAKDD 2007, PAKDD 2005, …
Graphics & Vision: ACCV 2012, Pacific Graphics 2009, …
System: IPDPS 2012, IEEE Cluster 2012, ISPAN 2011, PDCAT
2010, ICEBE 2010, ICEBE 2009, FCST 2009, Percom 2008,
INFOSCALE 2006, SIS 2006, ICEBE 2005, ISPAN 2005, …
Software Engineering: ICASE 2011, APSEC 2012, SOSE 2007, …
Security & Forensics: ASIACCS 2011, CANS 2008, …
Theory: AAAC 2008, APBC 2007, ISAAC 2005, I-SPAN 2005, ISPAN 2004, …
 Many editorships, keynote speeches and invited talks
 Industrial Relationship
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IEEE, ACM, HKIE, HKCS, HKACE, …
OGCIO, HK Police Force, Correction, Customs & Excise, Hospital
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SIAT, Huawei, BGI, CAS, …
HSBC, MTRC, EMC, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, Macquarie, …
Teaching Strategies
and Performance
Overview of
Teaching Programmes
Teaching Programmes
 4-year undergraduate curriculum launched since
2012/13
1. BEng(CompSc)
• no. of students in 2016/17 : 280 (excluding Year 1, common 1st
year)
2. BEng(CE)
• Joint programme with Department of Electrical & Electronic
Engineering
• no. of students in 2016/17 : 44 (excluding Year 1, common 1st year)
Teaching Programmes
3. BEng(EngSc) - Computing & Data Analytics
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Joint programme with Department of Statistics & Actuarial
Science
New programme launched from 2012/13
no. of students in 2016/17 : 16 (excluding Year 1, common 1st
year)
4. Double-Degree BBA(IS)/BEng(CompSc)
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Joint programme with Faculty of Business & Economics
no. of students in 2016/17 : 151
5. Major / Minor in CS (for non-CS students)
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no. of students who declare Major in CS in 2016/17 : 82
no. of students who declare Minor in CS in 2016/17 : 202
Enrollment in foundation programming course in 2016/17 :
256
Teaching Programmes
6. MSc(CompSc)
• no. of students in 2016/17 : 398
7. MSc(EComIComp)
• no. of students in 2016/17 : 164
8. Research Postgraduate
• no. of students in 2016/17 : 124
MPhil
PhD
Full-time
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Part-time
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BEng(CompSc)
 Accredited by HKIE
 Curriculum design
• allow flexibility for students to pursue 2nd major or
minor
• Internship is compulsory
• Final Year Project
• Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme
UG Teaching
 Outcome-based learning approach
• Continuous improvement process
 Departmental teaching awards
• annual awards
• teacher, tutor
 Mid-term survey
• to identify if there are any problems on assignment and
tutors in the middle of a semester
 Teaching & Learning Quality Committee
 TA Management Committee
• to monitor tutors’ performance and review related issues
 Academic advisory
• To advise students on course selection and career planning
UG Teaching Performance
 Consistently rank high in institutional
surveys:
• Student Evaluation of Teaching and Learning
(SETL)
• Overall assessment on both course effectiveness and
teacher effectiveness: both scores are on increasing
trend in recent years, the department average score
reaching 75 (out of 100)
• HKU Student Learning Experience Questionnaire
(HKUSLEQ)
• Above or on par with HKU average
Our Graduates
BEng(CompSc) Graduates
Where did the graduates go?
2015 Employment Survey
BEng(CompSc) Graduates
Basic Salary of HKUCS Graduates
PhD Graduates:
recent faculties
• Oxford University, UK
• U of Southampton, UK
• University of
Liverpool, UK
• King's college, U of
London, UK
• University of Leicester,
UK
• Arizona State U, USA
• Wayne State U, USA
• National University of
Singapore
• Tsinghua U, China
• CAS, China
• Tsinghua, Taiwan
• University of Hong
Kong, HK
• Hong Kong
Polytechnic
University, HK
• Hong Kong City
University, HK
• Aalborg University,
Denmark
• Bilkent U, Turkey
• Nanjing U, China
PhD Graduates:
recent Postdoc
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U of Pittsburgh, USA
U of Arizona, USA
U of Cleveland, USA
Yale, USA
Purdue U, USA
• U of Southhampton,
UK
• U of Liverpool, UK
• Max Planck Institute,
Germany
• U of Zurich,
Switzerland
• Aalborg University,
Denmark
Thank You