Dr. S.-H. Gary Chan is currently Professor in the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong.  He is also Chair of the Committee
on Entrepreneurship Education Program at HKUST, and Board Director of
Hong Kong Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Center (LSCM).  He
received MSE and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University (Stanford, CA) in 1994 and 1999, respectively, with a Minor
in Business Administration.  He obtained his B.S.E. degree (highest
honor) in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (Princeton,
NJ) in 1993, with certificates in Applied and Computational
Mathematics, Engineering Physics, and Engineering and Management
Systems.  His research interest includes smart sensing and IoT, cloud
and fog/edge computing, indoor positioning and mobile computing,
video/location/user/data analytics, and IT entrepreneurship.

Professor Chan has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on
Multimedia (2006-11), and a Vice-Chair of Peer-to-Peer Networking and
Communications Technical Sub-Committee of IEEE Comsoc Emerging
Technologies Committee (2006-13).  He has been Guest Editor of
Elsevier Computer Networks (2017), ACM Transactions on Multimedia
Computing, Communications and Applications (2016), IEEE Transactions
on Multimedia (2011), IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2011), IEEE
Communication Magazine (2007), and Springer Multimedia Tools and
Applications (2007).  He was the TPC chair of IEEE Consumer
Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC) 2010, Multimedia
symposium of IEEE Globecom (2007 and 2006), IEEE ICC (2007 and 2005),
and Workshop on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Multimedia Streaming in ACM
Multimedia Conference (2005).

Professor Chan has co-founded and transferred his research results to
several startups.  Due to their innovations and commercial impacts,
his startups and research projects have received local and
international accolades (2012-2020).  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 (2010 and 2011) and Silver Award
of Boeing Research and Technology (2009).  He was a visiting professor
and researcher in Microsoft Research (2000-11), Princeton University
(2009), Stanford University (2008-09), and University of California at
Davis (1998-1999).  He was Director of Entrepreneurship Center
(2016-20), Undergraduate Programs Coordinator in Department of
Computer Science and Engineering (2013-15), Director of Sino Software
Research Institute (2012-15), Co-director of Risk Management and
Business Intelligence program (2011-2013), and Director of Computer
Engineering Program (2006-2008) at HKUST.  He was a William and Leila
Fellow at Stanford University (1993-94), and the recipient of the
Charles Ira Young Memorial Tablet and Medal, and the POEM Newport
Award of Excellence at Princeton (1993).  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).