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Overview & Highlights

Overview & Highlights. About the Department. 1975 – CS courses first taught in HKU 1982 – BSc( CompStud ) first offered 1988 – CS Department Founded Academic Staff Tenure-track and Tenured Staff – 26 Contracted Staff – 4 Research Groups Algorithms and Bioinformatics (8)

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Overview & Highlights

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  1. Overview & Highlights

  2. About the Department 1975 – CS courses first taught in HKU 1982 – BSc(CompStud) first offered 1988 – CS Department Founded Academic Staff Tenure-track and Tenured Staff – 26 Contracted Staff – 4 Research Groups Algorithms and Bioinformatics (8) Data and Software Engineering (5) HCI, Graphics and Computer Vision (6) Information Security and Forensics (5) Systems and Networking (4)

  3. Rank 14th globally in 2013/14 Rank 10th globally in 2012/13

  4. Teaching Programmes UG CS-Related Programmes - 765 students Taught PG Programmes - 416 students Research PG Programmes - 125 students

  5. BEng(CompSc) Graduates Where did the 2013 graduates go?

  6. Selected HKU/Faculty Awards HKU Outstanding Teaching Award Two HKU Outstanding Researcher Awards Two HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Awards HKU Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award Five Faculty Outstanding Teaching Awards Two Faculty Knowledge Exchange Awards

  7. External Recognitions(Past 5 Years) Best Paper Award x 20 Best Student Paper Award x 6 Editorship, Invited Lectures,Keynote Speeches ~110 Applied Research: Top in HKU in ITF Funding

  8. High Throughput Analysis of Sequencing (NGS) Data for Clinical Diagnosis • Funding: Innovation & Technology Fund + Novogene • Joint Lab: HKU-BGI Bioinformatics Algorithm Laboratory • Software: SOAP-dp & BALSA • fastest (and sensitive) software for alignment & variant detection • ~ 5 hours for Whole Genome Sequencing (1,000 Gigabases) using commodity hardware • Users/Collaborators: NIH, Johns Hopkins, NCSA, Institute of Cancer Research (UK), Beijing Cancer Hospital, HKSH, …

  9. Lineament Systems to Fight High-Tech Crime in Cyberspace • Contract Research funds by law enforcement agencies • Systems deployed to HKSAR Customs & Excise Department since 2007 to fight Cyberspace Crime in Hong Kong • Received Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award • Research graduates/students playing leading roles in local law enforcement agencies Detects IP Infringement activities on the Internet Detects potential auction fraud in cyberspace Monitors illegal file sharing

  10. Data Visualization Technology for Water Environment Conservation • Supported by Hong Kong Jockey Club • Systems deployed in Hong Kong • Hundreds of institutional users worldwide • Received State Award in Science and Technology

  11. Thank You

  12. Teaching Programmes

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