Pong C Yuen 阮邦志

Pong C Yuen received his B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering with first-class honours in 1989 from the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1993 from the University of Hong Kong. He joined Hong Kong Baptist University in 1993 and served as the Head of the Department of Computer Science from 2011 – 2017 and Associate Dean ( Teaching and Learning) of the Faculty of Science from 2018-2024. He is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Dr. Yuen received the University Fellowship to visit the University of Sydney in 1996. Dr. Yuen spent his sabbatical and visited several universities/research institutes, including The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), the University of Maryland at College Park, INRIA Rhone Alpes, France, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and The University of Bologna, Italy. Dr. Yuen was the director of the Croucher Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on biometric authentication in 2004, the Croucher ASI on Biometric Security and Privacy in 2007, and the Croucher ASI on AI for Biomedicine 2025. He has been the Director of the IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics since 2017.

Dr. Yuen has been actively involved in many international conferences and professional communities. He was the track co-chair of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2006, the program co-chair of the IEEE Fifth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS) 2012, the IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA) 2016, the International Workshop on Information, Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2018, International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) 2021. He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2014 – 2018, 2021-2022), and received the Outstanding Editorial Board Service Award in 2018. Dr. Yuen has also served as the Vice President (Technical Activities) of the IEEE Biometrics Council (2017-2019), Associate Editor/Senior Editor of SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging (2012-2019), and Editorial Board Member of Pattern Recognition (2006-2025). Dr. Yuen is the Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Science, and Computer Vision and Image Understanding. He received the first-prize and second-prize Natural Science Awards from the Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Education, China, respectively. He is a Fellow of IAPR.

Dr. Yuen's research interests include biometric security and privacy and medical informatics.