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Ir Dr Albert Y.S. Lam

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Portrait of Albert Lam 

Albert Y.S. Lam, BEng, PhD HK; FIEAust, FHKCS, SMIEEE, MHKIE, MIET, MIES, RPE, FWS
Chief Research Officer, Fano Labs
Adjunct Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Senior Editor, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
Editor-in-Chief, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports

Short Biography

Albert received the BEng degree (First Class Honors) in Information Engineering from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong, in 2005 and he obtained the PhD degree at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of HKU in 2010. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of University of California, Berkeley. He was a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Hong Kong Baptist University in 2012–15 and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) of HKU in 2015–17. He is now the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Scientist at Fano Labs, a deep-tech startup specializing in speech and language technologies. He also serves at a Adjunct Associate Professor at HKU. He is a Croucher research fellow. He is one of the top 2% scientists Worldwide by Stanford University, 2020–25. He is a member of the Expert Committee of Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association. He is an active member of IEEE. He is the founding Chair of the Social Media Subcommittee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) and has also chaired some other committees in CIS. His research interests include optimization theory and algorithms, artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, smart grids, and smart cities. He is a Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. an Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web. He is a Fellow of EAI, Engineers Australia, and HKCS.

Interview by Croucher Foundation

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  • “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler” – Albert Einstein

  • “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together” – Vincent van Gog