KWONG Sam Tak Wu, Prof.

  • 8 Castle Peak Road, Tuen Mun

    Hong Kong

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1991 …2026

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Name in Chinese

鄺得互

Biography

Professor KWONG Sam Tak Wu is the Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research), J.K. Lee Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence, and the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies.. Professor Kwong is a distinguished scholar in evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, and image/video processing, with a strong record of scientific innovations and real-world impacts. Professor Kwong is one of the most highly cited researchers by Clarivate in 2022, 2023 and 2024. He has also been actively engaged in knowledge transfer between academia and industry. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2014 for his contributions to optimization techniques in cybernetics and video coding. He was  the President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) in 2021-22. He is a fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE). Professor Kwong has a prolific publication record, with over 500 journal articles and 160 conference papers, and an h-index of 99, as per Google Scholar. He is a highly cited researcher from 2022 to 2025. He is currently the associate editor of several leading IEEE transaction journals.

Research interests

  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Video Coding
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Machine Learning

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