NG, Michael Kwok-Po

 Professor

 B.Sc., M.Phil. (HKU), Ph.D. (CUHK) 


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Michael Ng is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Hong Kong Baptist University. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in 1990 and M.Phil. degree in 1992 at the University of Hong Kong, and Ph.D. degree in 1995 at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a Research Fellow of Computer Sciences Laboratory at Australian National University (1995-1997), and an Assistant/Associate Professor (1997-2005) of the University of Hong Kong before joining Hong Kong Baptist University.

Michael was the Public Relations Secretary (1998-2000, 2002-2006) and the Publications Secretary (2000-2002) of the Hong Kong Mathematical Society. He is now the Programme Director of the MSc Programme on Operational Research and Business Statistics and Director of the Centre for Mathematical Imaging and Vision (CMIV), Executive Director of the Institute for Computational Mathematics (ICM) at Hong Kong Baptist University, an Adjunct Professor of Harbin Institute of Technology, an Honorary Professor of the University of Hong Kong (2005-2011), an Adjunct Research Fellow of the E-Business Technology Institute (2000-2011), and the Secretary of the East Asia SIAM Section (2005-2008). He is the council member (since 2008) of Hong Kong Institute of Science, and the board member (2007-2011) of China Society for Computational Mathematics. He is also the Engineering Panel Member of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council starting from 2009.

Michael won the Honourable Mention of Householder Award IX, in 1996 at Switzerland, an excellent young researcher's presentation at Nanjing International Conference on Optimization and Numerical Algebra, 1999, and the Outstanding Young Researcher Award of the University of Hong Kong, 2001. Michael and his collaborators (Tony Hu, F. Wu and B. Sokhansan) won the outstanding research paper on Artificial Intelligence "Mining and Dynamic Simulation of Sub-Networks from Large Biomolecular Networks" in the 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing. He is the first one in the Mathematics Departments of Hong Kong to be the Principal Investigator of an Innovation and Technology Funding Project (Tier 2) at 2003, and to be the Director of Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute at 2008. In 2010, he obtained a support from the Innovation and Technology Funding to work with Ma Belle Jewellery Company for a research project Sales Knowledge Acquisition and Customer Behavior Analysis Platform For Jewelry Retail Industry.

Michael was the plenary speaker of SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, 2009, and was the first Chinese to be plenary speaker of SIAM LA since 1997: his presentation slides with the title Numerical Linear Algebra, Data Mining and Image Processing and related papers:

  • M. Ng, G. Qiu and A. Yip, Numerical Methods for Interactive Multiple Class Image Segmentation Problems , July 2008.
  • X. Kong, M. Ng and Z. Zhou, Transductive Multi-Label Learning via Alpha Matting , September 2009.
  • L. Zhang, L. Liao and M. Ng, Fast Algorithms for the Generalized Foley-Sammon Discriminant Analysis , SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 2010.

    Michael supervised more than 20 graduate students. His master student, Eric Fung, won the Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student Award in 2004 at the University of Hong Kong. His Phd student, Huang Yumei, won the second prize of the Third EASIAM Student Paper Competition, 2007, and the Winner of the Best Student Paper Award of the International Conference on Applied Mathematics: Modeling, Analysis and Computation, 2008.

    As an applied mathematician, Michael's main research areas include Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Operations Research and Scientific Computing. Michael has published and edited 5 books, published more than 180 journal papers. He has reviewed papers for more than 50 international journals. He currently serves on the editorial boards of

  • [2006-] Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Elsevier (Principal Editor)
  • [2005-] SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, SIAM
  • [2004-] Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, Wiley-Blackwell
  • [2006-] International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, InderScience
  • [2008-] International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets, and Intelligent Systems, InderScience
  • [2004-] Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, Springer
  • [2008-] Australian Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Austral Internet Publishing
  • [2004-] International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, InderScience
  • [2003-] Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Global Science
  • [2009-] Fuzzy Information and Engineering, Springer
  • [2008-] Advances in Numerical Analysis, Hindawi Publishing Co.
  • [2007-] Applied Mathematical Sciences, Hikari Ltd.
  • [2008-] The Open Applied Mathematics Journal, Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.

    and was guest editors of several special issues of the international journals (Journal of Computational Mathematics, International Journal of Applied Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Computation, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications).

    Michael also provided consultancy services to local community: CLP Power, PCCW, HK Government Environmental Protection Department, M-finance and ExchangeRepublic.com, and LOGISTICS, HK Productivity Council Publications. He obtained and finished an Innovation and Technology Funding Project (HK$7M), Intelligent Classification Technologies for Email Data in Chinese and Mixed Languages (2003-2004).


    "The bringing together of theory and practice leads to the most favourable results; not only does practice benefit, but the sciences themselves develop under the influence of practice, which reveals new subjects of investigation and new aspects of familiar subjects." P.L. Chebyshev


    Research

  • Publications
  • Software in Medical Sciences
  • My Team (Graduate Students and Post-docs)

  • Institute for Computational Mathematics (ICM)

    Faculty Stragetic Research Area: Centre for Mathematical Imaging and Vision (CMIV)

    Hong Kong Virtual Institute for Imaging Sciences and Applications VIISA

    CMIV Lectures Series: Optimization for Image Restoration by Mila Nikolova Lecture 1 Slides , Lecture 2 Slides , Lecture 3 Slides , Lecture 4 Slides , Lecture 5 Slides , Lecture 6 Slides , Lecture 7 Slides , Lecture 8 Slides

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    Hong Kong Virtual Institute for Imaging Sciences and Applications (VIISA) Symposium, 9 November 2009, Hong Kong Baptist University

    IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM), 19-22 December 2010, Hong Kong

    Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Imaging, 10 July 2009 and 17 September 2009 Hong Kong Baptist University

    International Conference On Preconditioning Techniques For Scientific And Industrial Applications, August 24-26, 2009, Hong Kong Baptist University

    ASI Symposium on Bioinformatics and Data Mining, Hong Kong Baptist University, 26-27 February 2009

    Workshop on Tensor: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, Hong Kong Baptist University, 22 July 2008

    Croucher Advanced Study Institute - Mathematical & Algorithmic Challenges for Modelling & Analysing Modern Data Sets , Hong Kong Baptist University, 21-25 April 2008

    Gene Around the World , Hong Kong Baptist University, 29 February 2008

    Workshop on Solution Methods for Saddle Point Systems , Hong Kong Baptist University, 31 October 2007

    Joint France/Hong Kong Image Processing Workshop , Hong Kong Baptist University, 2 February, 2007

    Workshop on Linear Algebra with Applications , Hong Kong Baptist University, 10 November, 2006

    The 3rd International Conference on Structured Matrices and Tensors , Hong Kong Baptist University and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, January 19-22, 2010

    The 2nd International Conference on Structured Matrices , Hong Kong Baptist University, June 8-11, 2006

    Master of Science in Mathematical Finance and Financial Engineering , Business School of Kent State University (USA) and Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University

    Master of Science in Operational Research and Business Statistics , Business School of The University of Kent (UK) and Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University

    NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) : U.S. - Hong Kong REU in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing with Applications in Applied Science and Engineering, 2006, 2007 and 2008

    The Third International Conference on Scientific Computing and PDEs , Hong Kong Baptist University, December 8-12, 2008

    The Second International Conference on Scientific Computing and PDEs , Hong Kong Baptist University, December 12-16, 2005


    Teaching

  • (BSc 05-06, 06-07) MATH1140 Computational Mathematics
  • (BSc 05-06,08-09,09-10) MATH7030 Special Topics: Numerical Linear Algebra
  • (BSc 05-06, 06-07) MATH2230 Operational Research I
  • (BSc 06-07) MATH1670 Recreational Mathematics
  • (MSc 07-08) SCI7410 Operational Research I
  • (MSc 07-08) SCI7480 Operational Research II
  • (MSc 07-08) SCI7580 Computational Finance
  • (MSc 07-08) SCI7570 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  • (MSc 08-09, 09-10) MATH7610/ORBS7110 Quantitative Models for Marketing
  • (MSc 09-10) ORBS7060/SCI7460 Applied Time Series

  • Useful Links

  • HKMS
  • SIAM
  • AMS
  • MathSciNet
  • IEEE
  • Netlib
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  • DBLP
  • MLNet
  • KDD Archive
  • HKBU Webmail
  • SHCSPS

  • Address: Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
    Office: Fong Shu Chuen Building FSC 1212
    Phone: (852) 3411 7317
    Fax: (852) 3411 5811
    Email: mng [at] math [dot] hkbu [dot] edu [dot] hk

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