Department of Electronic Engineering, CityU HK

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FONG, Anthony Shi-Sheung
B.E.E. Villanova, M.Sc. SUNY Buffalo, Ph.D. Sunderland, MHKIE, SMIEEE

Associate Professor

Room: G6360 Tel: (852) 2788-7761 Fax: (852) 2788-7791 Email: anthony.fong@cityu.edu.hk

Dr. Fong received his B.E.E. degree from Villanova University, Pennsylvania in 1969. He then worked at Philco-Ford Corporation as Programmer before he returned to university.  He received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1973. He was awarded Ph.D. degree from University of Sunderland in 2003. In 1973, he joined Digital Equipment Corporation in Massachusetts as Design Engineer, responsible for the design and development of DEC Systems 10 and 20, and the VAX-11/780 Systems. In 1977, he moved to the Data General Corporation as Senior Design Engineer, working on the FHP Project in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. He was later promoted to Principal Engineer and, subsequently, to Project Leader working on MV/20000 designs and development in Westborough, Massachusetts. He joined the Wang Laboratories in 1984 as Hardware Section Manager, responsible for the design and development of the VS-300 FPU and the VS-10000. He was later promoted to Hardware Department Manager. He was elected to the Chairman's Club for his contribution to the VS-10000 in 1989. He gained teaching experience as a part-time instructor teaching Computer Design at Northeastern University, Boston from 1981 to 1983. In 1991 and joined the City University of Hong Kong as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering. He was Visiting Professor at the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science from 1997 to 2003. At present he is Associate Professor and the Director of the EDA Centre in the Department of Electronic Engineering.

Dr. Fong has been awarded eight United States patents on computer architecture and design. He has published more than sixty papers on computer architecture and design, and database. At present he is working on a computer system project HISC (High-level Instruction Set Computer) for Object-Oriented computing. There are two U.S. patents issued and three others pending on HISC. The website is: http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~hisc.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Computer Architecture & Design, and Electronic Design Automation.

PATENTS

1.        U.S. Patent #7,146,479, 5 Dec 2006: Richard C.L. Li, A. Fong, "Method and Apparatus of Storage Allocation/De-allocation in Object-Oriented Programming Environment".

2.        U.S. Patent #6,941,444, 6 Sept 2005: A. Fong, "Specifying Branch Prediction for Operands".

3.        U.S. Patent #6,292,879, 18 Sept 2001: A. Fong, Method and apparatus to specify access control list and cache enabling and cache coherency requirement enabling on individual operands of an instruction of a computer”.

4.        U.S. Patent #5070475, 3/12/91: K.Normoyle, J.Guyer, R.Vogt, and A.Fong, "Floating Point Unit Interface".

5.        U.S. Patent #5062041, 29 Oct 1991: William Zuk and A. Fong, Processor/Coprocessor Interface Apparatus Including Microinstruction Clock Synchronization”.

6.        U.S. Patent #5034880, 23 Jul 1991: A.Fong, R.Becker, M.Schwartz, and J.Delmonte, "Apparatus and Method for Executing a Conditional Branch Instruction".

7.        U.S. Patent #4763294, 9 Aug 1988: A.Fong, "Method and Apparatus for Floating Point Operations".

8.        U.S. Patent #4447879, 8 May 1984: A.Fong, "Improved Apparatus for Representing the Size of an Element in a Compound Data Item and Deriving Addresses and Lengths Using the Element Size".

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1.        Tan Yiyu, Yau Chi Hang, Lo Kai Man,Yu Wing Shing, Mok Pak Lun, Anthony S. Fong, "Design and Implementation of a Java Processor", IEE Proc. Computers & Digital Techniques, vol. 153, No. 1, Jan 2006, pp. 20-30.

2.        Yau Chi Hang, Tan Yi Yu, Mok Pak Lun, Yu Wing Shing, and Fong Anthony S. "A Hardware/ Software Co-design and Co-verification on a Novel Embedded Object-Oriented Processor", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3824, pp 371-3805. Dec 2005, Springer.

3.        Yau Chi Hang, Tan Yi Yu, Fong Anthony S., and Yu Wing Shing. "Hardware Concurrent Garbage Collection for Short-lived Objects in Mobile Java Devices", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3824, pp 47-56. Dec 2005, Springer. ISSN: 0302-9743, ISBN: 3-540-30807-5.

4.        Yau Chi Hang, Tan Yiyu, Anthony S. Fong. "A Novel Just-In-Time Compiler on an Embedded Object-Oriented Processor", The 5th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT2005), pp. 771-775, Shanghai, China. September 2005.

5.        Yiyu Tan, Chihang Yau, Kaiman Lo, Paklun Mok and Anthony S. Fong. "A Novel JAVA Processor for Embedded Devices", pp. 112-121, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3553/2005. Springer, ISSN 0302-9743, ISBN 3-540-26969-X.

6.        Tan Yiyu, Lo Kai Man, Mok Pak Lun, Yu Wing Shing, Anthony S. Fong "A Java Processor for Mobile Devices", International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Jan 2005, Las Vegas, USA.

7.        Lo, K.M.; Yu, W.S.; Fong, Anthony S. "An Efficient Class Resolving Scheme for an Object-Oriented Computing System", International Conference on Information Systems: New Generations - ISNG 2004, pp 105-109, Nov 2004, Las Vegas, USA. ISBN 0-9762601-0-7.

8.        Lo, K.M.; Yu, W.S.; Fong, Anthony S. "Secure Object Referencing for an Object-Oriented Computing System", Proceedings of the International Conference on Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering 2004, pp 273-276, Sep 2004, Cairo, Egypt. ISBN 0-7803-8575-6, IEEE Catalog No. 04EX893.

9.        Yu, W.S.; Li, Richard; Fong, Anthony S. "Hardware Concurrent Garbage Collection for Short-lived Objects in an Object-Oriented Processor", Proceedings of the International Conference on Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering 2004, pp 285-288, Sep 2004, Cairo, Egypt. ISBN 0-7803-8575-6, IEEE Catalog No. 04EX893.

10.        Mok, P.L., Fong, A., Hau, Gary K.W. "Object-Oriented Processor Requirements with Instruction Analysis of Java Programs", International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies (ISICT 03), pp 620-625, Sept 2003, Dublin, Ireland. ISBN 0-9544145-2-7, ACM Int'l Conference Proceedings Series. ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) Computer Architecture News, v31 n 5, pp 10-15, Dec 2003.

11.        LEUNG, K C, CHENG, L M, FONG, A S S and CHAN, C K, "Cryptanalysis of a Modified Remote User Authentication Scheme Using Smart Cards", IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 49(4), November 2003, pp 1243-1245.

12.        Yu, Ryan W.S., Hau, Gary K.W., Fong, A. "Test Bench for Software Development of Object-Oriented Processor", International Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies (ISICT 03), pp 632-637, Sept 2003, Dublin, Ireland. ISBN 0-9544145-2-7, ACM Int'l Conference Proceedings Series. ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) Computer Architecture News, v31 n 5, pp 5-9, Dec 2003.

13.        Hau, Gary K.W.; Fong, A.; Mok, P.L. “Support of Java API for the jHISC System”, ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) Computer Architecture News, v31 n 4, pp 12-17, Sept 2003. 

 

Last updated: 10th Jan 2007