Background
Ip, Horace Ho-Shing was born on January 9, 1957 in Hong Kong. Son of Edward Ming-Cheung Ip and Nancy Wai-Ling Ng.
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Horace Ho-Shing Ip
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Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics with honors, U. London, 1980; Doctor of Philosophy in Image Processing, U. London, 1983.
Career
Postdoctoral research associate, University College London Imaging Processing Group, 1983-1984;
research fellow, Research Computing Unit, Imperial Cancer Research Funds Laboratory, London, 1984-1987;
project manager, senior engineer, Cambridge (England) Consultants, 1987-1989;
senior lecturer, City University Hong Kong, Department Computer Science, 1989-1991;
principal lecturer to University Senior Lecturer, City University Hong Kong, Department Computer Science, 1991-1996;
professor, head department computer science, City University Hong Kong, Department Computer Science, since 1997. Chairman technical panel on multimedia and committee, Hong Kong Industrial Technology Center Corporation, since 1998. Member of advisory peers group Open Learning Institute, since 1994.
Chair, program committee member various international conferences. Official advisor 9th International Computer Expo and Conference, Hong Kong. Co-editor: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1024: Image Analysis Applications and Computer Graphics, 1995, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1464: Multimedia Information Analysis and Retrieval, 1998.
Contributor chapters to books.
Achievements
Membership
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (chair computer chapter 1996-1997), Engineering Council, Institute Physics United Kingdom, Institute Elec. and Electronics Engineers, Hong Kong Institution Engineers, Hong Kong Computer Society (director education and training 1994-1995, editor newsletter 1994-1995), Hong Kong Society Multimedia and Image Computing (founding president 1992-1995), International Association Pattern Recognition (member governing board since 1992, founding co-chair technical committee multimedia and image committee since 1994).
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Married Annie Wai-Lan Ng. 1 child, Francesca.
