Shueng-Han Gary Chan
Chartered Fellow, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (FCILT)
Chief Executive's Commendation for Community Service (for "outstanding
contribution to the fight against COVID-19"),
23rd Honours List, Hong Kong, 2020 (video, 07:10-07:28)
Board Director, Hong Kong Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Center (LSCM), Hong Kong
PhD,
Electrical Engineering,
Stanford University, January 1999
PhD minor: Business Administration
(Management of operations,
information and technology)
MSE, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, June 1994 (William and Leila Fellow, 1993-94)
BSE (Highest Honors),
Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University, June 1993 (Charles Ira Young Memorial Tablet
and Medal, and the POEM Newport Award of Excellence)
Certificates in
Engineering Physics,
Applied
and Computational Mathematics, and
Engineering and Management Systems,
Princeton University, June 1993
My weekly regular schedule
Research Interests
Smart sensing and IoT, cloud and fog/edge AI,
indoor positioning and mobile computing,
video/location/user analytics and mining,
IT entrepreneurship
Full biography in text
I conduct applied system research on multimedia and wireless
networking using machine learning and data analytics techniques, addressing critical industry-driven and operational
challenges to support cost-effective
large-scale services. In contrast to
"theoretical" or
fundamental research, my team has been working closely with companies
to study and
develop novel, distributed and deployment-ready systems which advance the field.
We apply rigorous algorithmic and optimization techniques to relentlessly close
practice-theory gaps so that our systems operate under the most general and
realistic network environment. The systems we developed go beyond
proof-of-concept prototypes, and can be fully integrated into
industrial operations with
unmatched performance in their running. I keep a strong
team of researchers (postdocs, PhD and MPhil candidates) and regular engineering
staff, whose work closely knit together so that
our research results drive engineering excellence while deployment
challenges drive our research agenda.
Our work
has been extensively supported by leading companies such as Boeing,
China Mobile, Cisco,
Google, HAECO, HP, Huawei, Modern Terminals Ltd. (HK), Mei Ah Entertainment, Microsoft, TCL,
Tencent,
etc.
Widely known for their practical nature,
my systems have won awards and been of direct impact to
industry. They have been
demonstrated and deployed with remarkable success.
The following lists some of my research
projects which have been or are being transferred to companies with commercial
users (mostly supported by industry-government collaboration program through Hong Kong
Innovation and
Technology Fund
(ITF) and LSCM Center):
- AI + Healthcare
- IoT Geofencing to Enforce Hong Kong Home Quarantine Order for Covid-19
- Chief Executive's Commendation for Community Service (for "outstanding
contribution to the fight against COVID-19"), 23rd Honours List, Hong Kong, 2020
- Anti-epidemic Technology Product Award, Retail Innovation Award 2020, November 2020
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J. Tan, E. Sumpena, W. Zhuo, Z. Zhao, M. Liu and S.-H. Chan, "IoT
Geofencing for COVID-19 Home Quarantine Enforcement," IEEE
Internet of Things Magazine Special Issue on Smart IoT Solutions for Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 24-29, September 2020.
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- Dementia Anti-wandering with Crowdsourcing (Total HK$13,030,000)
- Deep Learning Technology for Dyslexia Pre-screening
- Student Innovation (Post Graduate Stream) Bronze Award, Hong Kong ICT Awards, November 2020
- Automated and Private Multimodal IoT Contact Tracing for Covid-19 Exposure
- SmartAP: Ubiquitous people sensing and user analytics
- Highlights
- China College Students' Entrepreneurship Competition (Silver Medal), 2018
- International Exhibition of Inventions (Silver Medal), Geneva, April 2018
- Hong Kong ICT Awards (Bronze), Student Innovation (Tertiary or Above), 2018
-
Champion, JCI East Kowloon Next Step Startup Challenge,
July 2017
-
Student Team Award, Winner of the 7th Annual HKUST One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition, June 2017
- First-class Award, Entrepreneurship Proposal, "Challenge Cup" National Competition - Hong Kong Regional Final, Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2017, May 2017
- Collaborative industry-government fundings
-
Trial: Smart AP: Wi-Fi positioning and optimization for a smart city
(Total HK$5,541,850)
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Smart AP: Wi-Fi positioning and optimization for a smart city
(Total HK$8,814,651.58)
-
Wherami: Client-based indoor localization technology
- Highlights
- Outstanding Tracking and Surveillance Award, Pandemic Innovative Digital Solution Awards 2020 (To Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre Limited/Compathnion Technology)
- Hong Kong Awards for Industries: Technological Achievement, 2018 (To Compathnion Technology Ltd. for deploying our technologies)
- HK ICT Awards 2018 (Certificate of Merit), Smart Mobility Award (Smart Tourism), 2018 (To Harbour City Estates Ltd./Compathnion Technology Ltd. for deploying our technologies)
- Hong Kong Awards for Industries: Innovation and Creativity, 2015 (To Compathnion Technology Ltd. for deploying our technologies)
- Try out our android apps for HKUST multi-floor campus on
Google Play
- Collaborative industry-government fundings
- Trial: Indoor localization, tracking and navigation (Total
HK$1,674,000.00)
- Indoor localization, tracking and navigation (Total
HK$11,206,191.59)
- Lavinet: An advanced multi-hop wireless infrastructure for pervasive and high-throughput Wi-Fi
access
- Highlights
- Collaborative industry-government fundings
- Trial: Innovating an Efficient Outdoor Mobile Wireless Mesh Network
(Total HK$1,759,000)
- Innovating an efficient outdoor mobile wireless mesh network
(Total HK$2,801,774.18)
- Designing an advanced outdoor wireless router
(Total
HK$984,193.52)
- Lavinet: A lean wireless infrastructure network
for aviation MRO industry
(Total
HK$7,582,751.93)
- SmartMesh:
An intelligent wireless mesh network for a Wi-Fi city
(Total HK$1,045,000)
-
Streamphony: A novel
cost-effective video streaming cloud over the
global Internet
- Highlights
- Gold Award, Best SME ICT (Cloud Solution) Award, HK ICT Awards
2014 (to Ananflow Technology Ltd. for deploying Streamphony)
- Best
Innovation & Research (College &
Undergraduates Schools) Awards (Special Mention
and Special Mention (Commercial Value)), Hong
Kong ICT Awards 2013
- Empowering the service launch of UTV, Hong Kong
first mobile TV channels,
with China Mobile Hong Kong and Mei Ah Digital Technology, December 10, 2012
-
Successful technology transfer and deployment trials
with Mei Ah Digital Technology
(October 30, 2012)
- Press
release and coverage on technology commercialization
- Collaborative industry-government fundings
-
Trial: Scalable IPTV and
interactive-movie platforms for ubiquitous multimedia streaming
(Total
HK$678,500)
- A next-generation content delivery cloud for live and interactive
video streaming (Total HK$8,560,189.67)
-
FastMesh: A
proxy-based peer-to-peer streaming protocol for scalable IPTV services
(Total HK$1,217,799)
-
Scalable IPTV and
interactive-movie platforms for ubiquitous multimedia streaming
(Total
HK$8,000,000)
Courses I Teach
Academic Calendar
- COMP 2011 (Programming with C++),
Spring 2021
-
CSIT6000J (IT Entrepreneurship),
Spring 2021
-
COMP/ENTR 4911 (IT Entrepreneurship), Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
- COMP 2012 (Object-Oriented Programming and Data
Structures), Spring 2018, Spring 2014,
Spring 2013
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COMP 2012H (Honors Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures), Fall 2015
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COMP 2012H (Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures
(Honors Study Track)), Spring 2012
- COMP 5622 (Advanced Computer Communications and Networking:
Performance Evaluation of Communication Networks, Spring 2012
- COMP 152 (Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures),
Spring 2011, Fall 2010,
Spring 2010, Fall 2009
- COMP 610G (Computational Finance), Spring 2008
- CSIT 600H
(Computational Finance), Nov/Dec 2007, June/July 2007, Feb 2006,
Mar 2006
- MAFS 524 (Software Development with C++ for Quantitative
Finance), Spring 2007
- COMP 104H
(Programming Fundamentals and Methodologies
for Honors Students),
Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
- EMB (Education and Manpower Bureau) Information Technology
Enhancement Program for Gifted Students, Spring 2006,
Spring 2005
- COMP 171H
(Data Structures and
Algorithms for Honors Students), Fall 2005, Fall 2004
- COMP 171
(Data Structures and Algorithms), Spring 04, Spring 03
-
COMP
362
(Computer Communication Networks II), Fall 03, Spring 02, Spring 01,
Spring 00
- COMP 651C
(Computer Networks Performance Evaluation: Simulation, Analysis, and
Modelling), Fall 02
- COMP 361
(Computer Communication Networks I), Fall 01, Fall 99
- COMP 660E
(Topics in Computer and Communication Network: Multimedia), Fall 00
- Previously at University of California, Davis (USA)
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ECS152A (Computer Networks I), Winter 99, Autumn 98
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ECS152B (Computer Networks II), Spring 99, Winter 99
Research and Labs
Professional Activities
- Associate/Guest Editor
-
Special Issue on Softwarization and Caching in NGN,
Elsevier Computer Networks, Volume 125, 9 October 2017.
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Special Issue on Multimedia Big Data: Networking,
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communication and Applications (TOMM),
Volume 12, Issue 5s, September 2016.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 1 September
2006 - 31 August 2011.
-
Special Issue on
P2P Cloud Systems,
Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications,
Volume 8, Issue 2, March 2015.
-
Special Section
on Interactive Multimedia
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 13, No. 5, October 2011.
-
Special Issue
on Distributed Image Processing and Communications,
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine,
Vol. 28,
No. 3, May 2011.
- Feature Topic on Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming,
IEEE Communications Magazine,
June 2007.
- Special issue on Advances in Consumer
Communications and Networking, Springer Multimedia Tools and
Applications, Vol. 29, No. 3 June, 2006.
- TPC Chair/Co-chair/Vice-chair/Track chair
- Co-chair, ITC (International Teletraffic Congress), Wurzburg, Germany, 12-16 Septemer, 2016
- Co-chair, International Workshop on Mobile Location-Based
Service, in conjunction with ACM Ubicomp, Sept. 18, 2011
- TPC Chair,
IEEE Consumer Communications
and Networking (CCNC), Las Vegas (USA), Jan 9-12, 2010.
- Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair (Multimedia Networking Track
Chair),
IEEE Consumer Communications
and Networking (CCNC), Las Vegas (USA), 10-12 January,
2008.
- Travel grant co-chair, ACM Multimedia, 27
October - November 1, 2008
- Co-chair, Multimedia communications services and software symposium, IEEE
Globecom, Washington (DC), 26-30 November 2007.
- Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair (Wireless Networking and
Multimedia Communications),
IEEE International Conference
on Computer Communications and Networking
(ICCCN), Hawaii (USA), 13-15 August,
2007.
- Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair (Wireless Networking Track
Chair),
IEEE Consumer Communications
and Networking (CCNC), Las Vegas (USA), 11-13 January,
2007.
- Technical Program Vice Co-Chairs, Multimedia Networking and QoS Track, IEEE
International Symposium on Multimedia
(ISM), San Diego, CA, December 11-13, 2006.
- Co-Chair, Multimedia Communications Symposium, IEEE Globecom, SF,
CA, 27 Nov - 1 Dec, 2006.
- Co-Chair, Multimedia Communications and Home Services Symposium,
IEEE ICC 2007 (Scotland), ICC 2005
(Seoul).
- Co-Chair, Workshop on "Advances in peer-to-peer multimedia
streaming," ACM Multimedia Conference, 6-12 November, 2005.
- Professional societies
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