劉永昌

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Lau Wing Cheong is a Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Vice-Chairman (Graduate) of the department, with the designations SMIEEE, FHKIE and MACM. His departmental profile records that he received his B.Sc.(Eng.) degree from the University of Hong Kong and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and that he directs the Mobile Technologies Centre (MobiTeC) at CUHK. The profile records that he spent a decade in United States industry before returning to academia: he was a member of technical staff in the Performance Analysis Department at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, researching high-speed networking protocols and systems, and also worked at Qualcomm in San Diego, where he designed the architecture and protocols for next-generation wireless services and contributed to standardisation work in the Internet Engineering Task Force and 3GPP. He holds 19 US patents and his research findings have appeared in more than 130 papers in major international conferences and journals. His recent research interests include security and privacy of online social networks, single-sign-on protocols and mobile payment systems, and representation learning for temporal interaction graphs. The official profile does not state his year of birth.