Pang, Grantham Kwok Hung

Biography

Dr. Grantham K.H. Pang obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge. He was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, from 1986 to 1996 and joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Hong Kong in 1996. Since 1988, he published more than 200 technical papers and has authored or co-authored eight books. He has also obtained five U.S. patents, one European patent, four Japanese patents and one Chinese patent. He was a Scholar and Fellow of the Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong.

His research interests include artificial intelligence, convolutional neural networks, intelligent transportation systems, electronic circuit design, machine vision for surface defect detection, LED system for communications, expert systems for control system design and intelligent control. In 1989, he was awarded the ICI Prize for authorship of the best paper on the application of the theory of control published in the Transaction of Institute of Measurement and Control.

Dr. Pang is an Editor of the International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, Machine Intelligence and Robotic Control, and Control and Computers. Dr. Pang has acted as a consultant to many companies, including Mitsubishi Electric Corp. in Japan, Northern Telecom and Imperial Oil Ltd. in Canada, MTR Corp. and COTCO Int. Ltd. in Hong Kong. In 1994, he worked as a Senior Visiting Researcher at Hitachi Research Lab. in Japan. Dr. Pang is a Chartered Electrical Engineer, and a member of the IET, HKIE as well as a Senior Member of IEEE.