Research and Postgraduate Studies Opportunities at Computer

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Research

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Introduction of HKBU Introduction of Computer

Science Department

1. Facts and figures

2. Research Strengths

• Computational Intelligence

• Networking and Systems

• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

• Databases and Information Management

Postgraduate Programme

By research

• Ph.D.

• M.Phil.

By course work

• IT Management

• Advanced Information Systems

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38 undergraduate and

67 postgraduate programmes

Established in 1956 – the 2nd oldest university in HK

Funded by the Government

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Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

About 8,400 students


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Library with one million of books and subscription to about 3,500 journals

Well-equipped classrooms

Excellent computer hardware/software

Sport centers and swimming pools

Medical and dental clinics

Excellent Facilities


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• 28 highly-qualified professors with Ph.D. degrees awarded by world renowned universities

• 36 research postgraduate students and visiting staff

• 186 M.Sc. students (increase each year)

• Over 300 outstanding undergraduate students

People


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Facts and figures Research Strengths

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• Supercomputer (132 CPUs) under the Science Faculty

• Many high-end servers (each has 4 dual-core CPUs)

• Many high-end PCs (Core i7 860 PCs)

• Gigabit network to every desktop computer

the first one among all local universities!!

• Wireless networks

• Variety of software

High-tech and Advanced Computer Facilities



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Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) of Computer Science Department 2006

*The RAE is an exercise undertaken every 4-6 years on behalf of the University Grants

Committee (UGC) to evaluate the quality of research undertaken by Hong Kong higher

education institutions.

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• Ranked #4 among local universities

• The top six universities can be

placed in the group of

top 15-50 institutions in the US

[Extracted from comments by UGC RAE 2006

Computer Science/Information Technology

Panel]

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HKBU Computer Science Department Performance in past RAEs

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*Source: University Grants Committee (UGC) www.ugc.edu.hk

Research Indices (%)



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Research Outputs : quantity vs quality



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Number of Refereed International Journal Papers in Computer Science Department

Average No. of Papers per Faculty

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Our papers published in High-Impact Journals, such as…


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Our papers published in High-Impact Journals, such as…


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Research Centres in Computer Science Department

Centre for e-Transformation Technology Research • An affiliated Centre of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)

• New fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced Information Technology (IT) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities.

Research Centre for Ubiquitous Computing • "Ubiquitous Computing" means the processing of any data at any time and

anywhere through any network using any device.

• For leading research collaborators from local and overseas universities



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Community Discovery and Formation in the Networked Society

Social Media Analysis for On-line Forums and Web 2.0 Photos Albums

A Multi-Agent Approach for e-Supply Chain Integration

Service-Oriented Platform for Computation, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Inference

A Multi-Agent Approach for Patient Journey Management


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Centre for e-Transformation Technology Research (Recent Projects)

Centre for e-Transformation Technology Research

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Analytics

Dynamic

Environment

Service Oriented

Computing

Data Mining

Multi Agent

Systems

Distributed

Resources


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Focuses on research areas like location-aware computing, mobile data management, RFID/sensor networks, middleware and embedded systems software development

A Research Center for Ubiquitous Computing



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Service Providers, Solution Providers, & Consumers

ASTRI Comm. Tech. Ctr. ITC HKWDC WLES MLES

Research Center for Ubiquitous Computing


WLES & MLES

A Research Center for Ubiquitous Computing


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Major Conferences Organized

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2006)

• well attended with over 700 experts and scholars from 60 countries and regions.

IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2006) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2006)

• well attended with over 700 experts and scholars from 60 countries and regions.

18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006)

• record-breaking 2,200 paper submissions, with more than 1,000 papers selected for oral and poster presentations. It attracted over 1,100 participants from 55 countries.



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Advanced Study Institutes (ASI)

Organized

Croucher ASI 2004

Recent Development on Biometric

Authentication

Croucher ASI 2007

Biometric Data Security and

Privacy


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Distinguished Guests/Visitors to the Department


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Prof. Lotfi A. ZADEH Professor

Graduate School

Computer Science Division

Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences

University of California, Berkeley

USA

Prof. Ning ZHONG Head

Knowledge Information Systems Laboratory

Department of Life Science and Information

Maebashi Institute of Technology

Japan

Prof. Tieniu TAN President of the Institute of Automation and

Director of the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition

Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

Prof. Xindong WU Professor and Chair

Department of Computer Science

University of Vermont

USA

Prof. Yiyu YAO Professor


University of Regina

Canada

Prof. Wen GAO Professor

Peking University

China

Distinguished Guests/Visitors to the Department


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Prof. Qiang YANG Professor


Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Hong Kong

Prof. Zhi-Hua ZHOU Cheung Kong Professor

Department of Computer Science and Technology

Nanjing University

China

Prof. Eugene Santos, Jr. Professor

Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, USA

Prof. Sankar K. Pal Distinguished Scientist and Former Director

Indian Statistical Institute

Prof. David Lorge Parnas Professor Emeritus,

University of Limerick & McMaster University

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Academic Achievements in the last 10 Years

• Research and development grant obtained ~HK$29,000,000

• 60+ consultancy projects for local and overseas companies

• Published >500 research papers in high-impact international journals and conferences



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Research Strengths

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Computational Intelligence



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Pattern Recognition and Machine

Learning

Databases and Information

Management

Networking and Systems

Focus

Multi-agent autonomy-oriented computing

Web intelligence

Applications to text and multimedia mining and retrieval, recommender systems and intelligent user interfaces, as well as social network analysis

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Agents,

Machine-Learning,

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Data Mining


Prof. Jiming Liu • Editor-in-Chief

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (IOS Press, The Netherlands) The IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin (IEEE Computer Society)

• Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part B) Computational Intelligence : An International Journal

• Co-Founder/Co-Chair of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) with Centres in over 20 countries • HK Research Grants Council (RGC) Engineering Panel member • HK Young Scientist Award selection committee

Agents,

Machine-Learning,

and

Data Mining


Faculty members (Computational Intelligence)

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Prof. Clement Leung • Editorial Board

Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining Journal of Mobile Multimedia Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal on Advances in Security Journal of Future Generation Communication and Networking

• Chairman, International Association for Pattern Recognition Technical Committee on Multimedia and Visual Information Systems • Program Chair

International Conference on Visual Information Systems International Conference on Evolving Internet International Workshop on Collective Evolutionary Systems

• International Standards (ISO) MPEG-7 Committee • Fellow

British Computer Society Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

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Machine-Learning,

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Dr. William Cheung • Co-chair and Programme Committee Member of a number international conferences • Member in Editorial Board of IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin

• Guest Editor Computational Intelligence An International Journal (Knowledge Grid and Grid Intelligence,2005) Journal of E-Commerce Research and Applications (Intelligence in e- Application, 2006) International Journal of Web Services Research (Services Discovery and Composition Systems, 2006)

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Machine-Learning,

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Data Mining


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Dr. Li Chen • Vice Chair of ACM HK Chapter • ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Member • Guest Editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Special Issue on Social Recommender Systems, 2011

Agents,

Machine-Learning,

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Data Mining


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Focus

Wireless networks, mobile location estimation

Ubiquitous Computing

Internet systems, communication services, peer-to-peer networks

Optical networks, high-performance computing

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Prof. Y.W. Leung • IEEE Senior Member



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Prof. K.Y. Ng • Associate editor

Service Oriented Computing and Applications Journal (Springer)

• Journal Co-Chair 7th IEEE Consumer of System Architecture, Elsevier Journal of Embedded Computing, Cambridge International Science Publishing Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Troubador Pulishing Ltd. Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence, American Scientific Publishers The HKIE Transactions, HKIE Journal of Mobile Multimedia, Rinton Press International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computer, Inderscience Real-Time Systems: The International Journal of Time-Critical Computer Systems(1999-2007) (Springer) Knowledge and Information Systems, Springer





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Dr. XiaoWen Chu • Editorial Board

MDPI Journal of Algorithms • Short Paper Co-Chair

7th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2010

• Symposia Co-Chair Optical Communications and Networking Symposium, ChinaCom 2009

• Program Vice-Chair 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2008

• Program Co-Chair 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Security in Networks and Distributed Systems, SSNDS 2007





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Dr. Hai Liu • Editorial Board Member

Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Journal of Communications





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Watermarking, lip reading

Web mining

Face biometric template protection

Human action recognition


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Pattern Recognition and

Machine Learning

Prof. P. C. Yuen

• Editorial board member Pattern Recognition

• Associate editor Recent Patents in Computer Science

• Director of Croucher Advanced Study

Institute on Biometric 2004 and 2007


Machine Learning


Faculty members (Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning)


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Dr. Y.M. Cheung • Chairman of the IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter • Key position in several major international conferences • Guest Co-Editor of the Special issue of two peer-reviewed international journals


Machine Learning



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Dr. C.H. Li • Co-Chair of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and other international conferences and workshops • Program committee of international conferences : PAKDD, Web Intelligence, PRICAI


Machine Learning



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Dr. Hailong Zhu • Publicity Chair, BIBM’11, IHI’12 • Reviewers of a number of journals and

conferences, e.g. Journal of Theoretical Biology, BMC Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Network, Journal of Information System Frontiers, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, Applied Soft Computing, BIBM, BMEI, DMDB, etc.


Machine Learning



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Database systems

Information privacy

Trust management

E-commerce, data management in networked systems and on novel storage media


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Agents,

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Management

Dr. JianLiang Xu • IEEE Senior Member • Co-Guest Editor, International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Applications, Elsevier • Technical program committee members of major conferences (ICDE, WWW, etc.)

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Faculty members (Databases and Information Management)

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Dr. Byron Choi • Programme committee/reviewer of a number of international journals and conferences on data engineering, information systems and knowledge management • Local organization committee of 2nd IAPR International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 2007)

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Dr. Bo Xiao • Reviewer for Journals/ Conferences/Research Grants:

Management Information Systems Quarterly International Journal of Electronic Commerce Journal of Electronic Commerce Research International Conference on Information Systems Americas Conference on Information Systems The Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction Research in Management Information Systems

• Served on the Program Committee of the Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction Research in Management Information Systems (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010) • Best Reviewer for the 7th Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction Research in Management Information Systems (2008) • Coordinator for the Special Issue on "Trust in Online Environments", Journal of Management Information Systems, 2008 • Active Member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS)

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Dr. Haibo Hu • Conference Organization: Program Co-Chair: DAMEN’11 Panel Co-Chair: DASFAA’11 • Program Committee Member DASFAA’11, DASFAA’10, CIC’08, ICWAPR’08, DASFAA’08

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• Computer Vision • Health Informatics • Wireless Communications and

Pervasive Computing • High Performance Computing • Multimedia Communications and

Systems

Other Research Focuses

Dr. Martin CHOY

Dr. Jian FENG

Dr. Fion LEE

Dr. K.M. LAM Dr. Kelvin WONG

Dr. H.W. TAM

Prof. Y.Y TANG

Dr. Joe YAU


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Postgraduate Programmes

Master Degree of Science (M.Sc.)

In

Information Technology Management

Degrees of Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.)

In

Computer Science

Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

In

Computer Science

By Research:

By Course Work:


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World famous professors Close relationship with

supervisor

Guaranteed overseas exchange opportunity

Guaranteed financial support

WHY BU

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Research Course Work


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Program Structure (Ph.D. & M.Phil.)

A research project 9 units course work (M.Phil.)

12 units course work (Ph.D.)



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Admission Requirements

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

• Master’s degree from a recognized university

• Bachelor’s degree* with first class honours from a recognized university *evidence of research achievement/experience; admitted to M.Phil. initially and proceed to Ph.D. after satisfactory assessment

Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.)

• Bachelor’s degree with honours from a recognized university



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Studentships & Scholarships

Studentship

Studentship: HK$13,600/month

ADDITIONAL financial support for Overseas Attachment or other

research-related activities

Ph.D. : HK$10,000 (by University)

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HK$10,000 (by Department)

M.Phil. : HK$7,000 (by University)

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HK$7,000 (by Department)

Department Level:

Scholarships

Postgraduate Research Scholarship : HK$5,000 each


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Guaranteed Overseas Exchange

Perform research in an overseas university and have a

cultural exchange with students/researchers in other

countries

Opportunity to present research paper in International

Conferences

Financial support from the Department/University

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Xin Li during her Overseas Attachment at the University of Waterloo (UW)

• “It was a great chance for me to discuss with elite scholars and receive valuable comments from them. The days at UW were inspiring, especially when sparks of research ideas came during research discussion.”

Comment from participant:



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Teaching Assistant Awards

Each Semester:



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Our graduates have entered different fields all over the world:

• Chief of Information Technology Services Centre

• Deputy Academic Registrar

• Professor in university

• Associate Head/Dean of Department/Faculty

• Postdoctoral research fellow

• Project & Quality Control Officer

• Software Development Engineer

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Gao Shen “First Class Prize” of the 12th National Challenge Cup Contest

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Research Postgraduate Students Achievements



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Xia Shang “Best Presentation Award” in The 4th Beijing-Hong Kong International Doctoral Forum , 2009

Liu Chang “Award of Merit” in the Poster Session of the ACM-HK Student Research and Career Day, 2009

I owe much thankfulness to the Department of Computer Science, where I spent two rich and meaningful years for M.Phil. The program covered both theoretical course study and research work on selected CS areas (my selections were game theory and robotics). I was greatly impressed by the arrangement of seminars presided by renowned scholars and professionals, which broaden our vision and imagination in CS area, as well as the fierce but interesting group discussions held every week, which provided great opportunities to train my immediate response and oral presentation skills……

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Comments from our research graduates/students:



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……I received my Bachelor and Ph.D. degrees, both in HKBU... After my Ph.D. graduation, I immediately joined the Department of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor… I am very grateful to have a good learning experience in the department. The professors are nice and they are really the experts…In my study at HKBU, the Christian Education was helping me to develop my positive attitude (e.g., persistent, self-development) toward my life.



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When I came to Hong Kong, one of the world's leading technological and financial centers, I have deeply felt the rapid life rhythm and the competitive circumstance. People are open-minded and hard working. They have concrete future career plan.

As a research oriented postgraduate student, I am so appreciated that our department provides us with a valuable training platform, especially a number of inspiring academic activities which benefits me a lot in both building solid research skills and career planning. I believe I become more capably versatile than before and I have more confidence for my future careers.

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Comments from our research graduates/students:


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I study in Hong Kong for around 2 years. I was offered plenty of resource to explore my interested research topics. I believe that it would be one of the most important experiences for me to cherish so far. Hong Kong is such an international platform that I can be accessed to kinds of excellent experts, touched the forest research topic, and learnt practical business concepts. I enjoy my life in Hong Kong which is inclusive, energetically and full of opportunities, challenges and self-motivate spirit.



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Intake students from famous universities • Tsinghua University

(清華大學)

• Renmin University of China

(中國人民大學)

• Southeast University

(東南大學)

• Northeastern University

(東北大學)

• Sun Yat Sen University

(中山大學)

• Hong Kong Baptist University

(浸會大學)

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Application Procedure

On-line application

http://ar.hkbu.edu.hk/~gs/index.php

by mail or in person to

Office of Graduate School, 7/F Fong Shu Chuen Library,

Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

Website http://buar.hkbu.edu.hk/index.php/admission/

postgraduate_admissions



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http://ar.hkbu.edu.hk/~gs/index.php

http://buar.hkbu.edu.hk/index.php/admission/postgraduate_admissions



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Postgraduate Programmes


In

Information Technology Management

Degrees of Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.)

In

Computer Science

Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

In

Computer Science

By Research:

By Course Work:


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M.Sc. in IT Management

Learn IT Management, both technology and management sides

Integrate the technological and managerial sides of IT



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Programme Structure

7 units of core courses*

3 core courses which cover the foundations of IT and management.

15 units of elective courses** in 5 streams

IT Enterprise Management

Knowledge and Information Management

Internet and Web Technologies

Business Analytics

Health Informatics

6 units of M.Sc. Project (Optional)***

e.g. research on a current IT problem, development of an IT system, or survey of a current IT topic, etc.

Each student is required to complete 28 units as follows:

*if the student has a Bachelor's degree in IT or closely related fields, he/she must substitute the core course "Foundations of Information Technology" by an elective course. **Each student must select at least three streams and take at least one elective course in each selected stream. *** If a student does not undertake M.Sc. Project, he/she should take 6 additional units of elective courses.



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Prof. Nick Cercone Former Dean Faculty of Science and Engineering York University Canada

Mr. John Shelton IT Director (North Asia) The Dairy Farm Company Limited Hong Kong

Mr. Michael K. M. Leung Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited Hong Kong

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• Prof. Chuang Lin • Professor • Department of Computer Science and Technology

Tsinghua University • Beijing • China

Mr. Peter Smith General Manager Information Technology Hong Kong CSL Limited Hong Kong

Mr. Chung-Kai Sin Former Legislative Councillor (Information Technology) Hong Kong

• Mr. David Chow • Chief Executive Officer • ShaoLin Microsystems Limited • Hong Kong

Advisory Committee (Worldwide)


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http://www.dairyfarmgroup.com/global/home.htm

http://www.shaolinmicro.com/

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Admission Requirements



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• Science, engineering, business or relevant fields

Bachelor’s degree

• Satisfactory score in IELTS or TOFEL are preferred

Proficient in English

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Our Graduates Miss Jinni Liang

“I was attracted by this Programme because its level is comparable to similar programmes in foreign famous universities but its tuition fee is relatively lower. My undergraduate specialty was computer science and technology, and the courses emphasized very much on the technical side. However, I prefer management and intend to engage management-related jobs in IT field. Therefore, the M.Sc. in IT Management Programme is a perfect choice for me.”

She is now working as a System Analyst Programmer in Hong Kong FDS Solution Ltd.



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Miss Cassie Yun Li:

After graduation from the Beijing Normal University, Cassie enrolled in our M.Sc. Programme.

She is now working as an Analyst Programmer in Hong Kong.

“By now, I have graduated from HKBU and I am so proud that I chose it. …I will never regret because I believe it will definitely give me more opportunities and challenges in the future.”



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M.Sc. in Advanced Information Systems

Provide solid technological background and enhance students’ competitiveness in a career related to Information Systems

Emphasize hands-on experience in advanced IS applications



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Programme Structure

10 units of core courses*

4 core courses which cover the foundations of Information Systems.

15 units of elective courses** in 3 streams

Enterprise Computing

Financial Information Systems***

Health Information Systems

3 units of M.Sc. Practicum (Optional)

****

Analyze, design, implement and apply information systems for a current IT-related problem.

Each student is required to complete 28 units as follows:

* if the student has a Bachelor's degree in IT or closely related fields, he/she must substitute the core course "Foundations of Information Technology" by an elective course. ** Each student must select at least ONE course from each stream.

*** Students may specialize in the stream of Financial Information Systems by completion of at least THREE courses from the stream. Those who declare and successfully complete a specialization in Financial Information Systems will have their specialization shown on their transcripts **** If a student does not undertake M.Sc. Practicum, he/she should take 3 additional units of elective courses.



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Prof. Nick Cercone Former Dean Faculty of Science and Engineering York University Canada

Dr. Weidong Kou Executive, Cloud, Global Alliance Solutions, IBM Growth Market Unit

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Prof. Zong-ben Xu Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vice President, Dean of Faculty of Science of Xi’an Jiaotong University, China; Chief Scientist of National Basic Research Program of China

Dr. Kwok Ching Tsui Head of Middleware Technology Services ASP, IT Operations, HSBC Technology and Services (HTSA), Hong Kong

Dr. Chun Por Wong Chairman, Hong Kong Society of Medical Informatics Ltd, Hong Kong

Advisory Committee (Worldwide)


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Career Opportunities in HK



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Application Procedure

On-line application

http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ar/admissions/post.htm

by mail or in person

to

Office of Graduate School, 7/F Fong Shu Chuen Library,

Ho Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University,

Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong



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Further Information


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