Dr. S.-H. Gary Chan is currently Professor of the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong.  He is also Affiliate Professor in
Innovation, Policy and Entrepreneurship Thrust of HKUST(GZ), and
Board Director of Hong Kong Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D
Center (LSCM).  He received MSE and PhD degrees in Electrical
Engineering with a Minor in Business Administration from Stanford
University (Stanford, CA).  He obtained his B.S.E. degree (highest
honor) in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (Princeton,
NJ), with certificates in Applied and Computational Mathematics,
Engineering Physics, and Engineering and Management Systems.  His
research interests include smart sensing and IoT, indoor localization
and mobile computing, video/location/data analytics, cloud and
fog/edge AI, and IT entrepreneurship.

Professor Chan has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on
Multimedia, and a Vice-Chair of Peer-to-Peer Networking and
Communications Technical Sub-Committee of IEEE Comsoc Emerging
Technologies Committee.  He has been Guest Editor of ACM Transactions
on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE
Communication Magazine, etc.  He is a steering committee member and
was the TPC chair of IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking
Conference (IEEE CCNC), and has been area chair of the multimedia symposium of
IEEE Globecom and IEEE ICC for many years.

Through technopreneurship, Professor Chan has co-founded several
startups and transferred his research results to industry.  Due to
their innovations and commercial or societal impacts, his technologies
have received local and international awards.  Notably,
he received Hong Kong Chief Executive's Commendation for Community
Service for "outstanding contribution to the fight against COVID-19"
in 2020.  He is the recipient of Google Mobile 2014 Award and Silver
Award of Boeing Research and Technology.  He was a visiting professor
or researcher in Microsoft Research, Princeton University, Stanford
University, and University of California at Davis.  At HKUST, he was
Director of Entrepreneurship Center, Director of Sino Software
Research Institute, Co-director of Risk Management and Business
Intelligence program, and Director of Computer Engineering Program.
He was a William and Leila Fellow at Stanford University, and the
recipient of the Charles Ira Young Memorial Tablet and Medal and the
POEM Newport Award of Excellence at Princeton.  He is a member of
honor societies Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa, and a
Chartered Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
(FCILT).