Pong C Yuen

Pong C Yuen is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Associate Dean of Science Faculty at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He earned his B.Sc. (1989) from City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and Ph.D. (1993) from The University of Hong Kong. His academic career at HKBU spans since 1993, including a six-year term as Department Head (2011–2017).

Dr. Yuen's research focuses on video surveillance, human face recognition, and biometric security and privacy. His work bridges theoretical advancements in deep learning, sparse representation, and domain adaptation with practical applications in medical imaging and human-computer interaction.

Recent publications included in this summary demonstrate expertise in unsupervised learning for person re-identification, adversarial domain adaptation for anti-spoofing, and physiological signal analysis for biometric security. These works span venues like IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), CVPR, and AAAI.

Scientific awards include:

• University Fellowship (1996)
• Outstanding Editorial Board Service Award (2018)
• Guangdong Province First-prize Natural Science Award
• Ministry of Education China Second-prize Natural Science Award
• Fellow of IAPR

As an educator, Dr. Yuen has taught courses ranging from fundamental programming to graduate-level medical image processing, with a focus on interdisciplinary applications. He has served as Editorial Board Member for journals like Pattern Recognition and SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging, and as Vice President (Technical Activities) of the IEEE Biometrics Council.