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Professor Hubert T.H. Chan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, and serves as Programme Director for the BEng(CompSc) programme. He holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (2007) and previously worked as a postdoc at Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Germany. His research focuses on algorithms, combinatorial optimization, discrete metric spaces, and security & privacy, with applications in graph theory, network analysis, and privacy-preserving mechanisms.
Education:
- PhD in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
- BEng (Computer Science), details not specified in text
Research interests emphasize algorithmic design for dynamic systems, privacy in data aggregation, and efficient optimization techniques. His work bridges theoretical computer science with practical applications in network security and distributed systems.
Key grants include Hong Kong RGC-funded projects on oblivious data structures, spectral hypergraph analysis, and dynamic metric problems (2012–2018). His publications span top conferences like SODA, FOCS, WWW, and ICML, addressing challenges in clustering, sorting, privacy, and graph decomposition.
He oversees research groups exploring hypergraph learning, secure computation, and algorithmic privacy. His lab's work often intersects with real-world systems, emphasizing both theoretical rigor and practical relevance.
