Michael Ng is the Head and Chair Professor of the Department of Mathematics, and Chair Professor (Affiliate) of Department of Computer Science 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 is the Programme Director of the MSc Programme on Operational Research and Business Statistics and Director of the Centre for Mathematical Imaging and Vision (CMIV). He has been Associate Director of the Institute for Computational and Theoretical Studies (ICTS), and Executive Director of the Institute for Computational Mathematics (ICM) at Hong Kong Baptist University. Now he is an Adjunct Professor of Harbin Institute of Technology and of South China Normal University.

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 200 journal papers. He has reviewed papers for more than 50 international journals.

For more details, please check his homepage:

http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/~mng