CHENG, Lee-Ming
B.Sc., Ph.D. London, CEng CITP, FIET, SMIEEE, MHKIE, MBCS

 Associate Professor 

Room: G6516 Tel: (852) 2788-7778 Fax: (852) 2784-4294   Email: itlcheng@cityu.edu.hk 

Dr. Cheng was born in Hong Kong. He graduated from the Salesian English School where he was awarded many academic prizes. He left Hong Kong in 1976 and studied in the UK. Dr. Cheng received his B.Sc. degree in Physics and Computer Science and his PhD from King's College London (formerly Queen Elizabeth College), University of London in 1979 and 1982 respectively. He has been awarded the Dillion Prize, Britt Junior Scholarship and the University of London Scholarship. From 1982 to 1984, he was employed as a research fellow at King's College, London.

 In September 1984, he was Principal Engineer of ERA Technology Ltd., an independent research and consultancy organization in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Leatherhead UK and has been participated in Falkland Mine Clearance Field Trial. From August 1987, Dr. Cheng was Project Manager and Senior Consultant of Logica Space and Defense Systems Ltd. UK in Cobham in charge of a number of secret military research and pre-production projects in surveillance areas and develop systems with NATO codification.

He joined City University of Hong Kong in September 1989 and is now Associate Professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering. He is also the team leader of Computer Engineering Group. He received his Teaching Excellent Award from CityU and Excellent Paper Award from CAST Young Scientist Conference in 1995. He received an Innovator Award by EDN in Jan 1997, a Certificate of Merit from City University Applied Research Excellent Award in 1998 and a Certificate of Merit from Chinese International Invention Expo'98. He is the founder and CEO of MaCaPS International Limited and was Director and Technical Consultant/Scientific Advisor to a number of technology and listed companies in Hong Kong. He is an expert in security, smart card and RFID technologies and has published over 110 technical papers, 6 Patents, 1 Patent Allowed and 4 Patent Pending and over 20 classified publications.

 

Dr Cheng is very active in the professional services. He has been servicing IEE Hong Kong Executive Committee for over 15 years. He was the past Honorary Secretary and Chairman of the Executive Committee. He was Vice President, Assistant Honorary Secretary and Council Member of the Hong Kong Association of Advancement of Science and Technology; Vice President & Founding Member of Innovation & Technology Association; Council Member of HKIT Joint Council; member of IT Committee of Federation of HK Industries, advisor of HK New Generation Culture Association, Judge of Youth Innovation and Technology Competition, and director of Professional Validation Council Hong Kong Industries. He was also a member of 2nd Election Committee (IT sector) and is a HKSAR ACCOP Committee Member.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Security Encoding, Card Technology,  Digital Right Management and Digital Watermarking, RFID, Security Technology, Encryption, Optical Computing & Signal Processing, System Engineering, Artificial Neural Network and image processing.

Research and Industrial Grants awarded in past 5 years: Smart Card Design Centre (HK$12 Millions (PI))

Research and Industrial Grants in progress: Digital Watermarking Chip Fabrication (HK$3 Millions (PI)),  RFID Reader Design and Fabrication (HK$5 Millions (CI))

Other Active Research Grants: HK$0.6 Millions (PI) in RNG Chip, Java Card OS and Video Watermarking Chip Design, HK$0.6 Millions (CI) in ECC smart card implementation.

Research Studentship, Research Assistantship; Sale Engineers, H/W or S/W Engineers and Project Manager posts are open for application. Please send CV to itlcheng@cityu.edu.hk or lmcheng@macaps.com.hk.

 

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1.             

SL Li, KC Leung, LM Cheng, CK Chan, “A novel Image Hiding Scheme Based on Block Difference”, Pattern Recognition, Volume 39, Issue 6 , June 2006, pp. 1168-1176

2.             

Y. K. Liu, L. M. Cheng and L.L. Cheng,  "Load Distributing Algorithm using Fuzzy Neural Network", WSEAS Transactions on Communications, vol. 5, no. 3, March 2006, p.p. 527-234.

3.             

C.K. Chan, L.M. Cheng, “Hiding Data in Images by Simple LSB Substitution”, Pattern Recognition 37 (2004) pp. 469-474.

4.             

KC Leung, LM Cheng, SS Fong, CK Chan, "Cryptanalysis of a Modified Remote User Authentication Scheme Using Smart Cards", IEEE Trans. On Consumer Electronics, pp. 1243-1245, Nov 2003.

5.             

K.S.Ng, L.M. Cheng, “Image compression system using data reordering technique” Electronics Letters, Vol. 39, Iss 14, pp 1046-1047, July 2003.

6.             

L.M. Cheng, L.L. Cheng, Wei Sun, “On Commutativity of Duality Operator and Propagation Operator of Linear Codes Generated From Algebraic Curves”, IEEE Trans. On Information Theory, Vol 49, No. 1, Jan 2003, pp. 258-261.

7.             

J.Y. Chen, K.W. Wong, L.M. Cheng, “A Secure Communication Scheme Based on the Phase Synchronization of Chaotic Systems”, CHAOS 13 (2), pp508-514 Jun 2003

8.             

Chi-Kwong Chan and L.M. Cheng, “Cryptanalysis of a Timestamp-Based Password Authentication Scheme” Computer & Security, Vol 21, No. 1, pp 74-76, Feb.  2002

9.             

Chi-Kwong Chan and L.M. Cheng, “Security of Lin’s Image Watermarking System”, Journal of Systems and Software 2002, Vol 62, pp 211-21, June 2002.

10.         

Chi-Kwong Chan and L.M. Cheng, "The convergence properties of a clipped Hopfield network and its application in the design of keystream generator", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 340-348, March 2001.

EE4215/5815: Security Technology Course

EE3207: Digital System Design

IT2201: Microprocessor & Assembly Prog. Lang.

MACAPS International Limited <Power Point>

Smart Card Design Centre <Power Point>

RFID Research

Digital Right Management Research

My Publications

My Public Lectures

Useful Cryptographic Web-sites

BEng in Computer Engineering  Promotion Slide

Powerpoint on Smart Card 1 & 2

 

 

 Last updated: 5 Jan 2007