CHENG, Lee-Ming
B.Sc., Ph.D. London, CEng CITP, FIET, FBCS, FHKIE , SMIEEE

 Associate Professor 

Room: G6404 Tel: (852) 3442-7778 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 1 book in block cipher, 5 book chapters, 130 technical papers, 12 Patents and 2 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, Judge of HK ICT Award, Project Reviewer of Hong Kong ASTRI 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. He is still serving as Director of Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association, University Credit Union and Credit Union League of Hong Kong. He is also an elected District Councillor.

 

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 Grant awarded: Smart Card Design Centre (HK$12 Millions (PI)), RFID Reader Design and Fabrication (HK$5 Millions (CI)), Smart Card Technology Services (HK$2.0 Millions (PI)), HK$0.6 Millions (PI) in RNG Chip and Java Card OS and HK$0.6 Millions (CI) in ECC smart card implementation, Digital Watermarking Chip Fabrication (HK$3 Millions (PI)); and  Video Watermarking Chip Design, HK$0.6 Million, RFID applications in Logistic Management for Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (RMB $400,000 as Co-PI).

 

 

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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H. Y. Leung and L. M. Cheng, “Robust Watermarking Scheme Using Wave Atoms,” EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2011, Article ID 184817, 9 pages, 2011. doi:10.1155/2011/184817 [ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ranking 132/245, IF=0.885, Q3]

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HY Leung, LM Cheng, LL Cheng, "Robust Watermarking Schemes  using Selective Curvelet Coefficients based on HVS Model", International Journal of Wavelets Multiresolution and Information Processing, Vol. 8, No. 6 (2010) 941–959, Nov. 2010. [MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS ranking 34/80, IF=1.168, Q2]
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Hongya Zhao, KL Chan, LM Cheng, Hong Yan, "A Probabilistic Relaxation Labeling Framework for Reducing the Noise Effect in Geometric Biclustering of Gene Expression Data", Pattern Recognition, Vol. 42, Issue 11, pp 2578-2588, Nov. 2009. [COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ranking 21/102 Q1, IF=2.554]
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HY Leung, LM Cheng, LL Cheng, "A Robust Watermarking Scheme  using Selective Curvelet Coefficients", International Journal Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing, Vol 7, Issue 2, pp 163-181, March 2009. [MATHEMATICS, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS ranking 34/80, IF=1.168, Q2]
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C Zhang, LL Cheng, Z Qiu, LM Cheng,  “Multipurpose Watermarking based on Multiscale Curvelet Transform”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol 3, Issue 4, pp 611-619, November  2008. [ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC, ranking 29/249, IF=2.338, Q1]
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A Razaq, W.T. Luk, K.M. Shum, L.M. Cheng, K.N. Yung, “Air Interface Protocols Second Generation RFID”, IEEE Security & Privacy, Vol 6, Iss 4, pp. 21-27, Jul/Aug 2008. [COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, ranking 47/93, IF=1.172, Q3]
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H. Zhao, KL Chan, LM Cheng, H Yan, “Multivariate hierarchical Bayesian model for differential gene expression analysis in microarray experiments”, BMC Bioinformatics, 9, Suppl 1, art. no. S9, Feb 2008. [MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, ranking 4/29, Q1, BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY, 28/138, IF=3.428,  Q1]
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K.W. Wong, Edward C.W. Lee, L.M. Cheng, and Xiaofeng Liao ,“Fast Elliptic Scalar Multiplication Using New Double-base Chain and Point Halving”,  Applied Mathematics And Computation, vol. 183, no. 2, pp. 1000-1007, 15 December 2006. [MATHEMATICS, APPLIED, ranking 61/202, IP=1.124, Q2]
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KC Leung, SL Li, LM Cheng, CK Chan, "A Symmetric Probabilistic Encryption Scheme Based On CHNN Without Data Expansion", Neural Processing Letters, pp 93-105, Volume 24, Number 2, October, 2006 [COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ranking 70/102, IP=1.079, Q3]
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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, p.p. 1168-1176. [COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ranking 21/102 Q1]

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