James SHE 許丕文

James She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is also the founding director of Asia's first social media lab, HKUST-NIE Social Media Lab, and spearheads multidisciplinary research and innovation on the areas of: 1) data science in multimedia; 2) social computing, media and networks; 3) AI technologies for art, design and media; 4) IoT/ communication technologies for media systems. With these research interests, James and his research group have produced over 80+ publications in top journals and conferences with several best papers awards, innovations awards, patents and open-sourced software/hardware contributions. Some of these research outputs have led to several technology transfer activities and even startup companies supported by individual and venture investors.

In addition, James is the associate editor for both IEEE Transaction on Multimedia and ACM Transaction on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. Beside taking up the organizing roles in several international conferences and academic events, he also served as the advisors or consultants for some projects/organizations in private, governments and non-profit sectors, such as World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council (Social Media), Hong Kong Consumer Council, as well as some local hi-tech companies.

He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and he was the recipient of multiple national, university and scientific community awards, including the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, NSERC Innovation Challenge Award, Canada-UK Millennium Research Award, Outstanding Achievement of Graduate Studies, Associate Editor of the Year 2017 (ACM TOMM), etc. Check http://smedia.ust.hk/ for other details.