About HKBU
• Founded in 1956, the second-oldest university in Hong Kong
• 100% funded by Hong Kong Government
• About 8400 full-time students
• 33 undergraduate programmes and 53 postgraduate programmes

Rank of HKBU Computer Science Department in Hong Kong
The research performance is ranked at the 4th place among the Computer
Science/IT Departments
in the local top eight institutions and it is placed in the group of
top 15-50 institutions in the US.
[According to the Research Assessment Exercise 2006 conducted by Hong
Kong Government.]

People
• Over 20 highly-qualified professors with Ph.D. degrees awarded by
world renowned
universities
• Over 50 research postgraduate students and visiting staff

Established Strategic Research Areas (but not limited to the
following):
• Agents, Machine-learning, and Data-mining (Including: Autonomy
Oriented
Computing and Multi-agent Systems, Intelligent Agent Technology, Data
Mining,
Machine Learning, Statistical and Graph-based Learning, Speech
Analysis, Information
Filtering and Web Mining, Constraint Programming, Optimization, and
Scheduling, Web
Intelligence, Advanced Search Paradigms, Complex Adaptive Systems,
etc.)
• Networking & Multimedia (Including: Multimedia Communications and
Systems, All-
Optical Networks, Wireless Communications, IP networks, and Mobile
computing, etc.)
• Pattern Recognition (Including: Wavelet analysis and its
applications, Computer Vision,
and Image processing, etc.)

Requirements
• Bachelor degree in computer science or information engineering

Starting dates
• Starting date is August 1, 2009, or at the earliest convenience
afterwards

Studentship for Full-time Students: HK$13,200 per month
• MPhil student x 24 months (Guaranteed)

Opportunities for Working in Hong Kong after Graduation
Non-local graduates can apply to stay/return and work in Hong Kong
under the "Immigration
Arrangements for Non-local Graduates". More details can be found at:
http://www.immd.gov.hk/ehtml/id991.htm#II

Application Procedure
• By mail or in person to the Office of Graduate School, 7/F Fong Shu
Chuen Library, Ho
Sin Hang Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
• On-line application (http://ar.hkbu.edu.hk/~gs/index.php) For more
information, please
visit our webpage at: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk

Further Enquiry
Tel: (852) 3411 7079
Fax: (852) 3411 7892
Email: comp@comp.hkbu.edu.hk
Website: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk
Address: Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University,
Kowloon Tong, Hong
Kong

Or Contact:
Dr. Li CHEN
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong Baptist University
Email: lichen@comp.hkbu.edu.hk
Tel: (852)34117090
Homepage: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~lichen/

Dr. Li CHEN has been working on the Recommender System, which is an
inter-disciplinary
research by applying knowledge and techniques from Human-Computer
Interaction and Machine
Learning to help online users make decisions and alleviate information
overload. She is looking
for one Mphi candidate with particular interests in this research
area. Please send her email
(lichen@comp.hkbu.edu.hk) for any inquires.