Department of Computer Science

http://www.cs.hku.hk/

 
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Major Research Areas

Computer systems:
Distributed and parallel computing; networks; cluster and grid computing; pervasive computing; operating systems; computer architecture; WWW and internet.

Contact Person
Dr F.C.M. Lau
Tel: 2859 2170
Fax: 2559 8447
Email: fcmlau@cs.hku.hk

Data engineering:
Data mining; data warehousing; spatial database; real-time database; Internet resource discovery; semi-structured data and XML technology.

Contact Person
Professor D.W.L. Cheung
Tel: 2859 7072
Fax: 2559 8447
Email: dcheung@cs.hku.hk

Human-computer interface:
Computer graphics; computer vision; multimedia; speech recognition; pattern recognition; image processing; scientific computing; geometric computing.

Contact Person
Dr W. Wang
Tel: 2859 7074
Fax: 2559 8447
Email: clwang@cs.hku.hk

Information systems:
Information security; cryptographic systems; legal aspects of computing; e-commerce.

Contact Person
Dr L.C.K. Hui
Tel: 2859 2190
Fax: 2559 8447
Email: hui@cs.hku.hk

Software engineering :
Software engineering; software testing and verification.

Contact Person
Professor T.H. Tse
Tel: 2859 2183
Fax: 2559 8447
Email: tse@cs.hku.hk

Theory of computation :
Design and analysis of algorithms; computational geometry; computational biology.

Contact Person
Professor T.W. Lam
Tel: 2859 2172
Fax: 2559 8447
Email: twlam@cs.hku.hk

Departmental Requirements

A PhD candidate is required to submit a progress report and to give at least one oral presentation during each year of study after the probationary period. At least one seminar presentation should be given before submission of thesis. Research publication is strongly encouraged.

Postgraduate Admissions Advisor:

Dr C.L. Wang
Tel: 2857 8458
Fax: 2559 8447
Email:
clwang@cs.hku.hk

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