1. Overview of Department 2015/16

2. About the Department

3. 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

4. Rank 12 th globally in 2015 Rank 14 th globally in 2014 Rank 10 th globally in 2013

5. 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

6. Academic Staff Establishment

7. Academic Staff  Academic Staff Profile Professor (8) Associate Professor (12) Assistant Professor / Lecturer (6) Research Assistant Professor (1) total: 27  Head, Deputy Head, Programme Directors / Coordinators, Research Group Leaders, …

8. Research Strategies and Performance

9. Research Groups & Focus  Algorithms and Bioinformatics (5) 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) Data Mining, Uncertainty Database, Spatial Database, Cloud Database Security, Big Data Analytics, Software Testing, etc.  HCI, Graphics and Computer Vision (5) Geometrical Model, Visualization, Animation, Image Processing, Computer Vision, Texture Mapping and HCI, etc.  Information Security and Forensics (3) Network Security, Computer Forensics, etc.  Systems and Networking (4) Parallel and Distributed Systems, Grid & Cluster Computing, P2P Network, Cloud Computing, etc.

10. Research Output  Research Grants received (past 5 years) External: HK$112.6 M  Total RGC awards: $30.8 M  Total ITF awards: $50.3 M Internal: HK$17.6 M  Research Output (past 5 years) 289 journal papers 410 conference papers 47 MPhil graduates 67 PhD graduates

11. Interdisciplinary and Applied Research  Interdisciplinary 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 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$50.3 M of ITF grants in the past 5 years

12. International Collaboration 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) ……

13. Professionalism and Industry Relation  Conference Chair/PC Chair 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, I- SPAN 2004, …  Many editorships, keynote speeches and invited talks  Industrial Relationship IEEE, ACM, HKIE, HKCS, HKACE, … OGCIO, HK Police Force, Correction, Customs & Excise, Hospital Authority, … SIAT, Huawei, BGI, CAS, … HSBC, MTRC, EMC, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, Macquarie, …

14. Teaching Strategies and Performance

15. Overview of Teaching Programmes

16. Teaching Programmes  4-year undergraduate curriculum launched since 2012/13 1. BEng(CompSc) no. of students in 2015/16 : 232 (excluding Year 1, common 1 st year) 2. BEng(CE) Joint programme with Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering no. of students in 2015/16 : 38 (excluding Year 1, common 1 st year)

17. Teaching Programmes 3. BEng(EngSc) - Computing & Data Analytics Joint programme with Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science New programme launched from 2012/13 no. of students in 2015/16 : 16 (excluding Year 1, common 1 st year) 4. Double-Degree BBA(IS)/BEng(CompSc) Joint programme with Faculty of Business & Economics no. of students in 2015/16 : 130 5. Major / Minor in CS (for non-CS students) no. of students who declare Major in CS in 2015/16 : 60 no. of students who declare Minor in CS in 2015/16 : 146 Enrollment in foundation programming course in 2015/16 : 350

18. Teaching Programmes 6. MSc(CompSc) no. of students in 2015/16 : 285 7. MSc(EComIComp) no. of students in 2015/16 : 147 8. Research Postgraduate no. of students in 2015/16 : 137 MPhilPhD Full-time14111 Part-time57

19. BEng(CompSc)  Accredited by HKIE  Curriculum design allow flexibility for students to pursue 2 nd major or minor Internship is compulsory Final Year Project Undergraduate Research Fellowship Programme

20. 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

21. 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

22. Our Graduates

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

24. BEng(CompSc) Graduates Basic Salary of HKUCS Graduates

25. 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

26. PhD Graduates: recent Postdoc 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

27. Thank You