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Patrick C. K. Hung is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business and Information Technology in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology since July 2004.

He is currently cooperating with Boeing Phantom Works (Seattle, USA) and Bell Canada's Privacy Center of Excellence (Toronto, Canada) on an industrial security- and privacy-related research project respectively. Before that, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong and a Research Scientist with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) at Canberra in Australia. He also has prior industrial experience in e-business projects in North America and Hong Kong.

From 2000 to present, Patrick has been serving as a panelist of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA. He is an executive committee member of the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Steering Committee for Services Computing (TSC-SC), a steering committee member of the IEEE EDOC, an associate editor/editorial board member in several international journals, and a program organizer/committee member in international conferences/workshops.

He has been a book reviewer for Prentice Hall and Springer, and also a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Programming .NET Web Services, the IEEE Computer magazine, the IEEE Internet Computing magazine, the Decision Support Systems (DSS), the VLDB Journal, the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, and etc.

Patrick has a Ph.D. (completed in part-time basis) and Master of Philosophy Science, both in Computer Science, from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. Further, he has a Master of Applied Science in Management Sciences (completed in part-time basis) from the University of Waterloo (UW), Canada. He did his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. On the other hand, Patrick has been studied at CLC Japanese Language Institute at Tokyo in Japan and he got Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4 Certificate of Japanese-Language Proficiency (Administered by the Japan Foundation and Association of International Education Japan). He has also been a visiting Ph.D. student at RSA Laboratories West at San Mateo, California.

Degrees

  • MAS Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, 2002 (Completed on part-time basis)
  • Ph.D. Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, 2001 (Completed on part-time basis)
  • MPhil. Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China, 1995
  • BSc Computer Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1993
Others
CLC Japanese Language Institute at Tokyo in Japan and he got Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4 Certificate of Japanese-Language Proficiency (Administered by the Japan Foundation and Association of International Education Japan).



Employment History

2008
Associate Professor and IT Director (2008-2009), Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
2008
Visiting Scholar, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
2007 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada
2007 CAS Faculty Fellow, the Center for Advanced Studies, IBM Toronto Laboratory, Canada
2004-2008 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
2004 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
2002-2004 Research Scientist, ICT Research Centre, Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization, Australia
2001-2002 Software Engineer, Entrade & Metiom Inc., Canada
1999-2000 Software Developer, CYBERplex Inc., Canada
1997-1999 Assistant Computer Engineer, Cyberspace Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
1995-1997 Assistant Computer Officer, Computer Center, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
1994-1999 Part-time Tutor, School of Science and Technology, Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
1993-1995 Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
1993 Programmer, Evercarry Limited, Hong Kong, China