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Curriculum Vitae

© 2010-2017 by A.Y.S. Lam

Research Interests

  • Optimization techniques

  • Evolutionary computation

  • Smart grids

  • Smart cities

Education

  • Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (HKU), 2005-2010

  • BEng(Information Engineering), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU, Hong Kong, 2001-05

  • Education Abroad Program, University of California, Davis, California, USA, 2003-04

Affiliations

  • Senior Member, IEEE

    • Computational Intelligence Society Member

    • Communications Society Member

    • Power and Energy Society Member

  • Graduate Member, HKIE

Merits, Awards, and Scholarships

  • Croucher Fellowship, Croucher Foundation, 2010-12

  • Certificate of Merit (Category I: An Innovation), The HKIE Innovation Awards for Young Members 2011, HKIE, 2011

  • IEEE CEC2010 CIS Professional Travel Grant Award, Computational Intelligence Society, IEEE, 2010

  • P.K. Yu Memorial Scholarship, HKU, 2008-09

  • Postgraduate Studentships, HKU, 2005-2009

  • Bachelor degree with First Class Honours, HKU, 2005

  • Dean's Honours List, Faculty of Engineering, HKU, 2004-05

  • HKU Worldwide U/G Student Exchange Scholarships, 2003

Certificates

  • Certificate of Completion, Research Commercialization Introductory Online Course, Research Commercialization and SBIR Center, USA, May 2011.

  • Goethe-zertifikat A2 (Start Deutsch 2), Goethe-Institut, Hongkong, 2007

  • Certificate of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Stage 1 & 2), the Centre of the Advancement of University Teaching, HKU, 2006

  • Goethe-zertifikat A1 (Start Deutsch 1), Goethe-Institut, Hongkong, 2006

  • Certificate in French, Language Centre, HKU, 2005

Working Experiences

  • Research Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 09/2015 —- present

  • Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 092012 —- 082015

  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 082010 —- 072012

  • Research Assistant, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, HKU, 092009 —- 072010

  • Resident tutor, Morrison Hall, HKU, 10/2006 – present

  • Database programmer, Mass Transit Railway (MTR) Corporation, Hong Kong, 062003 – 082003

  • Research Assistant, ITI Scheme, HKU, 102002 - 042003

Professional Services

  • Society Board Member

    • Chair, Chapters Subcommittee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), 2017.

    • Member, Strategy Planning Committee of Member Activities, IEEE CIS, 2017.

    • Chair, Young Professionals Subcommittee, IEEE CIS, 2015–2016; Vice-Chair, 2017.

    • Member, Senior Members Subcommittee, IEEE CIS, 2016–17.

    • Member, Outstanding Chapter award Subcommittee, IEEE CIS, 2015.

    • Chair, Webinars Subcommittee, IEEE CIS, 2013–2014; Member, 2011–12.

    • Chair, Social Media Subcommittee, IEEE CIS, 2011–12.

    • Member, Technical Subcommittee on Green Communications & Computing, IEEE Communications Society, 2012.

    • Member, “Education” Task Force, Emergent Technologies Technical Committee, IEEE CIS, 2011-12.

    • Ex-Officio Member, GOLD Subcommittee, IEEE CIS, 2012–present; Vice Chair, 2011; Member, 2010.

    • Ex-Officio Member, Student Activities Subcommittee, IEEE CIS, 2012-present.

    • Ex-Officio Member, E-Letter Subcommittee, IEEE CIS, 2014-present.

    • Member of Ad-hoc Committee on YouTube Project, IEEE CIS, 2010-11.

  • Technical Program Committee

    • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2013–18.

    • ACM Workshop on Electric Vehicle Systems, Data, and Applications, 2017.

    • IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, 2014–17.

    • International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL), 2017.

    • IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData), 2014, 2016.

    • International Workshop on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data (MOD), 2015–16.

    • EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies (SmartGIFT), 2016.

    • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) – Wireless Access, Fall 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017.

    • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) – Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications, 2012–15.

    • ACMIEEEIFAC/TRB International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo(ICCVE), 2012–15.

    • International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), 2014.

    • IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Control for Smart Energy Systems (CCSES), 2014.

    • International Conference on Internet of Vehicles (IOV), 2014.

    • Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), 2012-13.

    • IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI): Special Session on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Networking, 2012.

    • IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI): Special Session on Medical and Educational Applications of Computational Intelligence to Benefit Society, 2012.

    • The 6th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST): Bio-informatics, Bio-inspired Computing and Bio-inspired Networking Track, 2011.

    • International Conference on Data Engineering and Internet Technology (DEIT), 2011.

    • 5th International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS), 2011.

    • 1st International Workshop on Bio-inspired Approaches to Advanced Computing and Commu- nications (BioAdcom), 2010 (in conjunction with Bionetics 2010).

    • Networking and Environmental Sensing meet Epidemiology and Biology (BioSense), 2010 (in conjunction with IEEE MASS 2010).

    • International Workshop on Pervasive Devices (PerDev), 2009-10 (in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2010).

  • Reviewer

    • IEEE Internet of Things Journal

    • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

    • IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification

    • IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

    • IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

    • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

    • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B

    • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

    • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

    • IEEE Transactions on Communications

    • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

    • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

    • IEEE Systems Journal

    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

    • IEEE Network Magazine

    • IEEE Communications Magazine

    • IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

    • IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine

    • IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution

    • Journal of Advanced Transportation

    • Applied Energy

    • Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

    • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization

    • Applied Soft Computing

    • Ad Hoc Networks

    • Neurocomputing —- EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

    • International Journal of Vehicular Technology

    • The Scientific World Journal

    • International Journal of Production Economics

    • WILEY Interdisciplinary Reviews - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

    • New Generation Computing Journal

    • Soft Computing Journal

    • Natural Computing Journal

    • Advances in Software Engineering

    • Shock and Vibration Journal

    • Computational Biology and Chemistry

    • Mathematical Problems in Engineering Journal

    • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

    • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2017

    • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2012–17

    • IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC), 2014

    • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Spring, 2015.

    • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2014

    • IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), 2013

    • IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2007–09, 2012-13

    • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2007, 2010, 2012

    • IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2012, 2014

    • IEEE International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT), 2007

  • Helper

    • IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2009

    • IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 2009

    • IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), 200