Tommy W S Chow is a Professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong.  Chow was born in Hong Kong and was educated in the U.K.. He received an IEE U.K. undergraduate scholarship in 1983, and was awarded a first class Honours degree in 1984 at the University of Sunderland, U.K.. He also worked for NEI Reyrolle Technology at Hebburn, England developing digital simulator for transient network analyser. He then worked on a research project involving high current density current collection system for superconducting direct current machines. The research project was carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense (Navy) at Bath, England and the International Research and Development at Newcastle upon Tyne. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1988 and returned Hong Kong to join the Electronic Engineering Department of the university.
 

Since he began his academic career with the Department, he has constantly carried out active research work. His research interests are in the area of Machine learning including Supervised and unsupervised learning, Data mining, Pattern recognition and fault diagnostic. His early research interests focused on developing training algorithms and weight initialization methods for supervised neural networks.   He has also applied his developed supervised learning algorithms on many engineering and physical science problems such as forecasting, control, signal processing, pattern recognition, and fault diagnostic.  More recently, he works on high dimensional feature selection, data reduction, data visualization, and clustering.   
 

Until now, he has published over 140 referred papers in international journals, 5 book chapters, and over 70 technical papers in international conference proceedings. He has also published a monograph book on Neural Networks.  He received the Best paper award in the 2002 IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual meeting at Seville, Spain. He has successfully supervised over 12 Ph.D students.  Apart from these research activities, he has been very active in professional services. He has been a regular technical reviewer for many renowned international journals, member of different international conference organizing committees. He has delivered talks, invited papers, and seminars in different universities and conferences.  In practical engineering work, Chow has performed active consultancy and collaboration projects with the Rolling Stock Department and Building Services Department of the KCRC, Hong Kong Electric, Hong Kong Royal Observatory, and Hong Kong MTRC. In professional activities, he has been an active Committee Member of the HKIE (Hong Kong Institution of Engineers) Control Automation and Instrumentation (CAI) division since 1992, and was the Division Chairman (1997-98) for the HKIE CAI division. He was also responsible for a 10 (half-hour) episodes radio broadcasting programme on Information Technology Networks with the Radio Television Hong Kong. He was appointed by the Hong Kong SAR Government and has served as committee member of the Hong Kong Occupational Safety and Health Council for 6 years.
 

Biography Listing

Who's Who in the World '2000 and other later issues

Who's Who in Science and Engineering '2000 and other later issues

Research Interests

Neural Networks, Computational Intelligent, Machine learning, Pattern Recognition

Editorial Board

Guest Editor, Neural Computing & Applications: Special Issue on "The Emerging Applications of Neural Networks" 2010

Associate Editor, Pattern Analysis and Applications

Associate Editor, International Journal of Information Technology

Conference Organizations

• International Program committee member of Int Conference on Prognostics and System Health Management, 2010, Macau.
• International Program committee member of ICONIPS, 2009 Bangkok.
• International Program committee member of ICIC, 2009 Ulsan South Korea.
• International Program committee member of ICIC, 2008 China.
• International Program committee member, 2007 International Symposium on Neural Networks, June, Nanjing, China.
• International Program committee member of ICIC, 2006 China.
• International Program committee member, The Third IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Banff Canada. July 2007
• Track Chair on Neural Network, International conference on communications, circuits, and systems (ICCCAS07), Fukuoka, Japan,  July 11-13 2007.
• International Program committee member, International Conference on Intelligent Computing: ICIC 2007 – Qingdao China August 21-24 2007.

• Organizing Committee member, CAAST' 1998 on Automation Science & Technology China Automation Academics (CAA), Hong Kong.

• Organizing Chairman, CAI Symposium' 1996 on Application and Development of Automation and Control Technologies, HKIE Hong Kong.

• Treasurer, 1994 IFAC International workshop on Safety Reliability & Applications of Emerging  Intelligent Control Technologies, IFAC, Hong Kong. 

• Secretary, The 3rd IEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, IEE, 1994 Hong Kong.       

Publications

Monograph Book

Neural Networks & Computing: Learning algorithms and applications, Tommy W. S. Chow, and S. Y Cho, Imperial College Press, 2007

Book Chapters

1. T. W. S. Chow, D Huang, Data reduction for pattern recognition and data analysis, Computational Intelligence Handbook, Springer-Verlag, to appear. 

 2. T.W.S. Chow, M. K. M. Rahman, Neurocomputing Research Development, Chapter 4: Extensions of Self-Organizing Maps to Handle Structured Data, Editor: Hugo A. Svensson, pp. 107-139, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. 

3.  D Huang, T. W. S Chow, Chapter 11: Towards the Enhancement of Gene Selection Performance, Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Edited by A. Kelemen, A. Abraham, Y. Chen, Springer, February 2008.

 4. T. W. S. Chow, D. Huang, Using Mutual information for  Feature  selection with bioinformatics applications, Neural Networks Applications in Information Technology and Web Engineering, 2005, Borneo Publishing Co.

5.  T. W. S. Chow, H. Z. Tan, Y Fang, Nonlinear systems representation, Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, edited by John G. Webster, New York: John Wiley & Sons, January 2002.

Best Paper Award

1. D Huang, Tommy W.S. Chow and W N Chau, Neural Network based system for counting people, 2002 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, November 2002,   Sevilla Spain. (Presented by Chow)
2. Yang Xu, Tommy W.S. Chow, Efficient Self-Organizing map Learning Scheme Using Data Reduction Preprocessing, 2010 International Conference of Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering, London June 2010. (Best Student paper Award: Presented by Xu)

Awards

Third Price, Shanghai City Science & Technology Award, 2009.

 Journal Publications list

 

 

 

Ph.D Graduates

 

F. Gou                (1995)

Hong-Zhou Tan  (1998)  Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Jim Y. F. Yam    (1998)  Gold Peak International, Hong Kong

Chi Tat Leung   (1998)

S. Y. Cho           (1999)  (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Y. Fang              (1999)  ShangHai University, China

Sitao Wu            (2004)  University of California, San Diego, USA

W. M. Ma          (2005)   Community College of City University  

Di Huang           (2005)  National Institute of Health (NIH), USA

M. M. Rahman   (2007)  United International University, Bangladesh

Zhaohui Gan     (2008)  Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China

Piyang Wang     (2008)  PCCW Limited, Hong Kong

Haijun Zhang     (2010)  University of Windsor, Canada

Lu Xu                 (2010)  City Univerisity of Hong Kong

Wei Huan           (2010)  Zhejiang University of Technology

 

 

Current Ph.D Advisees

 

Bing Li

Zhao Zhang

Zhou Wu

Mingbo Zhao

Peng Tang