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Yiu-ming Cheung is currently a Chair Professor (Artificial Intelligence) of the Department of Computer Science, Dean of Institute for Research and Continuing Education (IRACE), and Associate Director of Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies in Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He received PhD degree from Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2000, and then joined the Department of Computer Science at HKBU in 2001. He is a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and an IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, IAPR Fellow, IET Fellow, and British Computer Society (BCS) Fellow. He is the awardee of RGC Senior Research Fellow with receiving a fellowship grant of HK$7.8 million over a period of 60 months. Since 2019, he has been ranked the World’s Top 1% Most-cited Scientists in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing by Stanford University for six consecutive years. Furthermore, he has been elected as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and named a Chair Professor of Changjiang Scholars Program by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China for the dedication and exceptional achievements in his academic career. In addition, he is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence.
His research interests include machine learning and visual computing, as well as their applications in data science, pattern recognition, multi-objective optimization, and information security. He has published over 300 articles in the high-quality conferences and journals, including TPAMI, TNNLS, TIFS, TIP, TMM, TKDE, TCYB, CVPR, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, and so on. His four co-authored papers have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers (i.e. listed in Top 1% globally in the corresponding discipline). Moreover, he has been granted one Chinese patent and two US patents. Subsequently, the underlying technique of his eye-gaze tracking patent has been successfully applied to develop the first mobile app for fatigue driving detection. It turns out that, selected from 1000 new inventions and products of 700+ competition teams from 40 countries, he was awarded two most prestigious prizes: (1) the Gold Medal with Distinction (i.e. the highest grade in Gold Medals) and (2) Swiss Automobile Club Prize, in the 45th International Exhibition of Invention, Geneva, Switzerland, on March 29-April 2, 2017, in recognition of his innovative work. Also, he was the Gold Award Winner of Hong Kong Innovative Invention Award in the Seventh Hong Kong Innovative Technologies Achievement Award 2017. In addition, he won the Gold Medal with Congratulations of Jury (i.e. the highest grade in Gold Medals) and the Award of Excellence from Romania, respectively, at the 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva 2018 with his invention “Lip-password: Double Security System for Identity Authentication”, and received HKBU Innovation Award 2024. Also, he secured Gold Medal Award at the 15th International Invention Fair in the Middle East, held in Kuwait on February 16-19, 2025. He is the recipient of: (1) President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work 2023-2024, (2) 2023 APNNS Outstanding Achievement Award, (3) 2017 IETI Annual Scientific Award, and (4) 2017-2019 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. Besides, he was the recipient of: (1) Research Excellence Paper Award 2022-23 of Faculty of Science at HKBU, (2) The Best Paper Award (Second Prize) of Computer Academy of Guangdong, (3) Best Research Award of Department of Computer Science at HKBU in 2011 and 2021, respectively, (4) Best in Theoretical Paper Award in WI-IAT’2020, (5) Best Paper Awards in DOCS’2024, SEAL’2017, ISICA’2017, ICNC-FSKD’2014, and IEEE IWDVT’2005, respectively, and (6) Best Student Paper Award in ISMIS’2018.
He was the Founding Chairman of IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter and the Chair (2018-2022) of Technical Community on Intelligent Informatics (TCII) of IEEE Computer Society. He has served in various capacities (e.g., Organizing Committee Chair, Program Committee Chair, Program Committee Area Chair, and Financial Chair) at several top-tier international conferences, including IJCAI’2021, ICPR’2020, ICDM’2017 & 2018, WCCI’2016, WI-IAT’2012, ICDM’2006 & WI-IAT’2006, to name a few. He has been served as an Associate Editor for several prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2018-2023), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2014-2020), ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters (2022-2024), Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), and Neurocomputing, as well as the Guest Editor in several international journals. Currently, he is an Engineering Panel member of Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, and a member of assessment panel of Enterprise Support Scheme (ESS) under the Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF). Also, he is a member of Fellow Evaluation Committee of IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, respectively.
Research Interests
Machine Learning and Visual Computing, as well as their applications in Data Science, Pattern Recognition, Multi-objective Optimization, and Information Security.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Education/Academic qualification
Computer and Information Technology, PhD, Computer Science and Engineering
1 Jan 1998 → 8 Sept 2000
Award Date: 8 Sept 2000
Keywords
- QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Towards Lightweight Learning Framework for Simultaneous Multiple Visual Recognition in Dynamic Environments
CHEUNG, Y. M. (PI)
1/01/25 → 31/12/27
Project: Research project
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Semi-supervised Classification of Long-tailed Data with Hierarchically Related Labels in a Concept Drift Environment
CHEUNG, Y. M. (PI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Research project
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Facial Reenactment in a Monocular Video Stream for Speaker Verification and Its Applications
CHEUNG, Y. M. (PI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/28
Project: Research project
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Unsupervised Multi-source Domain Adaptation Approach to Deep Classification under a Complex Environment: A Challenging Problem?
CHEUNG, Y. M. (PI)
1/01/23 → …
Project: Research project
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Developing Machine Learning Methods for Industrial Big Data Analysis and Traceability of Product Quality Abnormality
CHEUNG, Y. M. (PI) & LIU, Q. (PI)
4/11/21 → 4/11/25
Project: Research project
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Adaptive micro partition and hierarchical merging for accurate mixed data clustering
Zhang, Y., Zou, R., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., Cheung, Y. M. & Li, K., Jan 2025, In: Complex and Intelligent Systems. 11, 1, 14 p., 84.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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Asynchronous Federated Clustering with Unknown Number of Clusters
Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., Lu, Y., Li, M., Chen, X. & Cheung, Y. M., 11 Apr 2025, Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2025. AAAI press, p. 22695-22703 9 p. (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 39, no. 21).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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A Unified Multi-Domain Face Normalization Framework for Cross-domain Prototype Learning and Heterogeneous Face Recognition
Pang, M., Zhang, W., Lu, Y., Cheung, Y. M. & Zhou, N., 14 May 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20, p. 5282-5295 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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Broad Multitask Learning System With Group Sparse Regularization
Huang, J., Chen, C., Vong, C.-M. & Cheung, Y.-M., May 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 36, 5, p. 8265-8278 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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Component-Level Segmentation for Oracle Bone Inscription Decipherment
Hu, Z., Cheung, Y. M., Zhang, Y., Peiying, Z. & Ling, T. P., 11 Apr 2025, Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2025. Walsh, T., Shah, J. & Kolter, Z. (eds.). AAAI press, p. 28116-28124 9 p. (Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence; vol. 39, no. 27).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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Prizes
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2024 President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work
CHEUNG, Y. M. (Recipient), May 2024
Prize: Award
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Awarded as Chair Professor of Changjiang Scholars, Ministry of Education
CHEUNG, Y. M. (Recipient), Apr 2021
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
- 12 Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (Journal)
CHEUNG, Y. M. (Editor in chief)
1 Jan 2023 → …Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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Expert Systems (Journal)
CHEUNG, Y. M. (Associate editor)
Feb 2023 → …Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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Pattern Recognition Letters (Journal)
CHEUNG, Y. M. (Associate editor)
10 May 2022 → …Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (Journal)
CHEUNG, Y. M. (Associate editor)
1 Jan 2021 → 31 Dec 2022Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (Journal)
CHEUNG, Y. M. (Associate editor)
2 Jan 2021 → 2023Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)