Wong Po-Choi

黃 寶 財

 

Professor

 

BSc, MPhil, PhD (CUHK)

SMIEEE, MACM, MH

 

Tel: (852) 2609-8390

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Biography

Prof. P.C. Wong received all his degrees, BSc, MPhil, and PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published over 40 papers, has acquired over 60 million HKD funding, and accomplished several successful projects. They include MAGNET – a Medical Imaging Network linking hospitals, VIOLA – a Video-on- Demand system on Local Area Networks, and Hong Kong School Net – an Internet for schools in Hong Kong. School Net won the IT Application Award in 1998 and VIOLA won two US patents and the IT Excellence Award in 1999.

 

Since 1998, Prof. Wong led the Hong Kong Cyber Campus project to offer leading edge Internet services to over 800 schools in Hong Kong. In 2000, Prof. Wong worked with the HKSAR Government to develop the Hong Kong Education City, which quickly became the flagship education portal in Hong Kong.

 

Prof. Wong is active in community services. He is now a committee member of Quality Education Fund and Home-School Cooperation. In 2001, Prof. Wong was awarded the Medal of Honor for his contributions to IT in education.



Honors & Awards
  • Medal of Honor, HKSAR, 2001
  • IT Application Award, 1999
  • IT Excellence Award, 1998
Research Interests
  • Multimedia Networking
  • E-Learning Technologies
Subject Taught

  • Information Engineering in Society
  • Information and Software Engineering Practice
Recent Projects

  • Hong Kong Cyber Campus, $30.9 million funding from UGC & QEF, 1998.
  • Hong Kong Education City, $31.8 million from QEF, 2000.
  • Hong Kong Family Net, $2 million funding from Easeful Strategies Ltd, 2003.
Representative Publications
  • P.C. Wong, "Hong Kong Education City", China Education and Research Conference 2002, Sun Microsystems, Beijing, Mar. 2002.
  • Y.B. Lee and P.C. Wong, "Performance analysis of a pull-based parallel video server," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1999.
  • P.C. Wong, "Hong Kong Cyber Campus - an Internet campus linking up universities and schools in Hong Kong," The 3rd World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'99), Orlando, U.S.A., Jul. 1999.
  • Y.W. Pun and P.C. Wong, "The inclusion of motivation elements in designing computer-aided learning software," The 3rd World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'99), Orlando, U.S.A., Jul. 1999.
  • Y.B. Lee, and P.C. Wong, "Design and performance evaluation of a multimedia web server, " Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 9, no. 3, pp.183-193, Sep. 1998.