Special Appointments

• Member of the DAAD-Scholarship Selection Board (for the Germany Consulate, HK), 1997.


• Vice Chairman of ACM SIG Applied Computing 96-98.


• Member of the ACM Membership Activities Board (MAB), responsible for the International Programme-China.


• Asia/Pacific Regional Representative of the ACM Internation Membership Activities Committee (IMAC) under the Membership Activities Board (MAB) Sept. 18, 97 to June 30, 98


• Member-at-Large of the Local activity Board of ACM, 1/7/95 to 30/6/96


• ACM Distinguished Lecturer, 93/94, 94/95, 95/96 and 96/97.


• Chairman of ACM Hong Kong Chapter, 94/95 and 95/96.


• Executive member of the Hong Kong IT Joint Council (1997).

Journal Editorship

• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Chinese Information Processing, since 2006.


• Guest editor of Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Language (JCPOL), Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Oriental Information Processing, Vol 18, No 2, June 2005.


• Co-Editor-In-Chief, Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (JCPOL), World Scientific Press, since 2004.


• Editor-In-Chief of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 2000-2007.


• Founding Editor-In-Chief of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 2000.


• Area Editor (E-Commerce) of Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (JCPOL), World Scientific Press, 2000-2003.


• Member of the advisory board of the International Journal on Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (CLCLP), 2000-2004, 2004-2008 2008-2012.


• Co-Guest editor of Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Language (JCPOL), Special Issue: Chinese Database Systems, Vol 14, No 3, September 2001.


• Guest Co-editor of the special issue on "Information Retrieval on Oriental Languages", Journal on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, September 1989.


• Member of the editorial board of International Journal on Parallel and Distributed Databases (Kluwer Publisher), since 1996.


• Member of the editorial board (database section) of the ACM Applied Computing Review, 92-95.


• Guest Co-editor of the special issue on "Logic Programming Applications" of the ACM Applied Computing Review, Fall 92.

Conferences

Chair

• Conference Co-Chair, 10th Asia Pacific Web Conference, Shenyang, China, April 26-28 2007.


• General Co-Chair, 4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS’08), Harbin, China, January 16-18 2008.
  


• Finance Co-chair, 2007 ACM SIGMOD Conference, Beijing, June 11-14, 2007.


• Conference Chair, 21st International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL06), Singapore, December 17-19, 2006.


• Program Co-Chair, 21st National Database Conference China (NDBC’07), Guangzhou, October 2007.


• Chair, Greater China Database R&D Summit, Hong Kong, June 2006.


• Program co-chair, 2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP05), Jegu Island, Korea, October 11-13, 2005.


• Organization Committee co-chair, 2004 Information Security Conference (InfoSecu04), Shanghai, Nov 14-16, 2004.


• General co-Chair, 1st Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS), Beijing, October 2004.


• Finance Chair, 1st International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP04) Conference, Hainan, China, March 2004.


• Program co-chair, 6th International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL’03), August 2003, Sapporo, Japan.


• Conference Chair: “Enterprise Portal and Webservices Conference”, IDG, Hong Kong Conventional and Exhibition Centre, June 18, 2003.


• Program Co-Chair, 6th International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages, Sapporo, Japan, July 7, 2003.


• Conference Co-Chair, 1st International Conference on News ML, Beijing, Dec 5-6, 2002.


• Panel Co-Chair and Fund Raising Chair, 28th Very Large Database Conference (VLDB2002), Hong Kong, August 20-23, 2002.


• Program co-chair of the 19th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'01), Seoul, Korea, May 14-16 2001.


• General Chair of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Asia Regional Contest, Hong Kong 2000, November/December 2000. (in collaboration with ITSD, HKSAR)


• General Chair of 2000 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Asian Languages (IRAL 2000), Hong Kong, 2000.


• Program Co-chair of the International Conference on Chinese Language Computing (ICCLC'2000), Chicago, July 8-9 2000.


• Co-Chair of the Organising Committee of 1999 International Conference in Information Security, Shanghai, October 10-13 1999.


• Program co-chair of the 18th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'99), Tokushima, Japan, March 29-31 1999.


• Local Chair of the Data Warehousing and Data Mining Workshop in the Euro-Par'98 Conference, Southampton, UK, September 1-4, 1998.


• Program co-chair (AI and database track) of 1994 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC94), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, March 6-8, 1994.

Member

• Member of Programme Committee, 2005 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT2005), 16-17 June 2005, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.


• Panelist, 21st National Database Conference, Xiamen, China, Oct 15-17, 2004.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 2004 ACM SIGMOD Conference, Paris, 2004


• Member of the Program Committee, Conference on Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Korea, April 2004.


• Member of the Programme Committee, 2004 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (ICDAT04), Taipei, March 18-19, 2004.


• Member of the Programme Committee, 2004 APEC Workshop on Resource Sharing in Digital Libraries, Taipei, March 15-19, 2004.


• Member of the Program Committee of 5th International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM2003), New Orleans, USA, Nov. 7-8, 2003.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 19th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages (ICCPOL'03), Shenyang, China, August 4-6, 2003.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 2003 International Conference on Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA03), April 2003, Kyoto.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 2002 IASTED International Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics (AI2003), February 10-13, 2003, Innsbruck, Austria.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 2nd International Conference on Web Inforamtion Systems Engineering (WISE2002), Singapore, 2002.


• Member of the Programme Committee of the ACL SigHan Workshop, 2002, Taiwan.


• Member of the Programme Committee (Chinese NLP) of 2002 International Conference on Computation Linguistics (COLING2002), Taipei, Taiwan, 2002.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 2002 IASTED International Conference on Information Systems and Database, Sept 25-27 2002, Tokyo Japan.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1st International Workshop on Web Learning, Hong Kong, August 2002. Panel and Fund Raising Chairs, VLDB 2002, Hong Kong.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 2001 International Conference on Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA01), April 2001, Hong Kong.


• Member of the International Programme Committee of SIGIR'2000, Athens, Greece, July 24-28 2000.


• Member of the Programme Committee of VLDB 2000, Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 1-4, 2000.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1st International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'00), Hong Kong, June 19-20, 2000.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1999 International Computer Science Conference, Hong Kong, December 13-15 1999.


• Member of the Steering Committee of the 4th International Workshop on Information Retrieval for Asian Languages, Taipei, November 1999.


• Member of the program committee of 9th International Database Conference (IDC'99), Hong Kong, July 15-17 1999.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1998 International Conference and Exhibition on High-Performance Computing and Networking, Amsterdam, Holland, April 12-14, 1999.


• Member of the Steering Committee of the 3rd International Workshop on Information Retrieval for Asian Languages, Singapore, 15-16 October 1998.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1st Asian Digital Library Workshop, Hong Kong, August 5-7, 1998.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1998 World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'98), Orlando, Florida, July 12-16, 1998.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1998 International Conference and Exhibition on High-Performance Computing and Networking, Amsterdam, Holland, April 21-23, 1988.


• Chief secretary of the Workshop on Chinese Database, Nov. 1997, Hong Kong.


• Member of the organising committee of 2nd Workshop on Information Retrieval for Asian Languages, Tsukuba-City, October, 1997.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1997 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'97), Caracas, Venezuella, July 7-11, 1997.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1997 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking, Vienna, Austria, April 28-30, 1997.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1997 International Conference on Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA97), Melbourne, Australia, April 1-4 1997.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (ICDCS'96), Hong Kong, 1996.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1996 International Conference on Data Engineering, New Orleans, 1996.


• Regional Coordinator of the 15th International Conference on Extended Database Technology, Avignon, France, March 1996.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1995 EuroPar Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 1995.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, (ICDCS'95), Vancouver, Canada May 31 - June 2, 1995.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1995 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN'95), Milan, May 3-5, 1995.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1995 International Conference on Database System For Advanced Applications (DASFAA'95), Singapore, April 11-14, 1995.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1994 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, Texas, Dec. 1994.


• Asian Coordinator of the 3rd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems (PDIS94), Austin, Texas, Sept. 1994.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1994 Conference on Parallel Architectures and Language Europe (PARLE94), Athens, Greece, July 1994.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 7th International Conference on Computer Performance Evaluation: Modelling Techniques and Tools (MTT94), Vienna, Austria, May 1994.


• Member of the Steering Committee of 1994 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC94), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, March, 1994.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1st International Workshop on Rules Processing and Active Databases, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 1993.


• Program co-chair (database track) of 1993 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC93), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, February, 1993.


• European coordinator of 2nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems, San Diego, USA, December, 1992.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 19th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architectures, Gold Coast, Australia, May, 1992.


• Member of the Steering Committee of 1992 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Kansas City, USA, March 1992.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1991 IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, USA, December 1991.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1990 ACM SIGSMALL/PC on Small and Personal Computers, Arlington, Virginia, USA, April 1990.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 2nd International Conference on Data and Knowledge Systems for Manufacturing and Engineering, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, October 1989.


• Member of the Programme Committee of 1988 ACM SIGSMALL/PC on Small and Personal Computers, Cannes, France, May 1988.
  

Lectures and Seminars

• Part-time lecturer in Computer Science of Heriot-Watt University during February 88 and May 89.


• I have visited and given seminars in a number of research institutes around the world, e.g. ICL (UK), Bull (France), INRIA (France), CEC (Belgium), Dept. of CTL City University (HK), DCS-CUHK (HK), DCS-HKUST (HK), DCS-HKU (HK), University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, Washington, USA), Puget Sound ACM Professional Chapter (USA), University of Central Florida (Orlando, Florida, USA), Washington D.C. ACM Professional Chapter (USA), Auburn U. (AL, US), UAB (AL, US), ACM Phoenix Chapter (AZ, US), Birgmingham Southern College (AL, US), U. of Oregon (Eugene, OR, US), Venderbilt U. (Nashville, TN US), Mississippi State U. (Starkville, MS, US), Middle Tennessee State U. (Murfreesboro, TN, US), Western Kentucky U. (Bowling Green, KY, US), Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), Renmin University (Beijing, China), Zhongshan University (Guangzhou, China), South China Polytechnic University (Guangzhou, China), Kyoto U. (Japan), Osaka U. (Japan), Tsukuba U. (Japan), ICOT (Japan), Fujitsu (Japan), University of Tokyo (Japan) and IBM TRL (Japan).