Supervisor
The project is supervised by Prof. Reynold Cheng, Professor of the
Department of Computer Science, HKU. Prof. Cheng's main research area
is large-scale data management and has been working on the modeling,
querying, cleaning, mining, and system development of uncertain
databases.
Student
Eashan Trehan is pursuing a Computer Science and Finance double
major at HKU and has attended exchange programs at the University of
Toronto (UofT) and the London School of Economics and Political
Science (LSE), with past work experience at J.P. Morgan and Deutsche
Bank.
Student
Aditya Mehta is a Computer Science and Finance double major, with
experience in Machine Learning and has previously worked at Hong
Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC).
Student
Pang Ming Kin is a Computer Science student with prior experience in
Data Analysis and Web Development, and has previously worked as an
intern at the Alibaba Group and China Merchants Bank (CMB).
Chair Professor
Prof. Michael Ng is Director of Research Division for Mathematical
and Statistical Science, and Director of Big Data Research Cluster,
Faculty of Science, HKU. His research interests are Applied and
Computational Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning, Data and Imaging Sciences and Scientific Computing.
Honorary Professor
Professor LI Wai Keung is Chair of Statistics at The University of
Hong Kong. Professor Li is renowned for his works in time series
analysis. He has made contributions to almost every area in
time-domain time series analysis over the years. In particular, he
is an expert in time series model diagnostics. He is also one of the
pioneers in considering long memory time series.
Professor
Wai-Ki Ching is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics, the
University of Hong Kong. Ching’s research interests are stochastic
modeling and matrix computations. In particular, the applications of
stochastic models and numerical algorithms in solving problems
related to Markov chain and its applications, bioinformatics, image
processing, management sciences and quantitative finance.
Professor
Professor Kao has published extensively in various international
journals, conference proceedings, and books. He has also served as
program committee member for many international computer conferences
and as reviewer for many journals. His research interests include
database management systems, data mining, real-time systems, and
information retrieval systems.
Associate Professor
Philip Yu is an Assistant Dean (Taught Postgraduate Programmes), the
Faculty of Science and an Associate Professor at the Department of
Statistics and Actuarial Science of the University of Hong Kong
(HKU). His research interests are broad and include non-parametric
inference, ranking methods, time series analysis, financial data
analysis, risk management and statistical trading.
Assistant IT Director
Mr Kwan is a research computing expert, supporting the research
computing services in the Hong Kong University (HKU) during the last
more than 30 years. Because of the strong demand in high performance
computing (HPC) within HKU, Mr. Kwan has been asked to take charge
of the HPC facilities and support in the HKU Computer Centre since
1994.
PhD Candidate
Wenya Sun is a PhD candidate of The University of Hong Kong, under
the supervision of Dr. Reynold Cheng. Before that, she received my
master degree from Shenzhen University in 2019 and Bachelor's degree
from the Hebei University of Engineering in 2016. Her research area
is Data Mining.
Research Associate
Dr. Tobias Grubenmann is a Postdoctoral Researcher at The University
of Hong Kong. He has been a Research Assistant at the University of
Zurich from 2014-2018, and a Software Engineer Intern at Google for
4 months in 2016.
Research Assistant
Nancy Lam is a Computer Science student with experience in Game
Development and has previously worked in Hong Kong Airlines.
