Professional Activities
Dr. Yuen has been involved in organizing international conferences and workshops as well as the Croucher Advanced Study Institute (ASI) in Hong Kong as a program co-chair, program committee member and organizing committee member. Some of the activities in recent years are listed as follows.
Editorial Board Member
- Pattern Recognition  2006 – present
- IEEE Transactions on Information, Forensic and Security 2014 – 2018
- SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging 2012 – present
Program Co-chair (2018 - present)
- International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 2020
- The 10th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensic and Scurity (WIFS), Dec 2018
- International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, May 2018
- International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics, June 2018
Track/Area Chair
- International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2018
- IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2016
- Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), December 2007
- The Ninth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), December 2006
Advanced Study Institute Director
- IAPR/IEEE Winter School on Biometrics 2019,2018,2017
- Croucher Advanced Study Institute on “Recent Development on Biometric Authentication”, December 2004
- Croucher Advanced Study Institute on “Biometric Data Security and Privacy”, January 2007
Program Committee Member (2018 - present)
- Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Feb 2019
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2019
- IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications And Systems (BTAS), 2019
- International Joint Conference on Artifical Intelligence (IJCAI), 2018
- Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Feb 2018
- IEEE Winter Conference on Applications on Computer Vision (WACV) 2018
- IEEE Biometric Council Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis (ISBA), 2018
- IEEE and IAPR International Conference on Biometric (ICB), 2018
Organizing Committee
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2010
At HKBU
- Associate Dean of Science Faculty, 2018 - present
- Head of Computer Science Department 2011 - 2017
- Convenor of University Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in X 2017 – present
- Undergradute Regulations Committee (URC) [former Academic Regulations and Review Committee] Member 2004 – 2016, 2018 – present
- Undergradauate Admission Committee (UAC) 2018 - present
- Quality Assurance Committee (QAC) Member 2018 - present
- Senate Member, 2004 – 2006, 2011 - 2017
- Student Affair Committee 2013 – 2017
- Honorary Degrees Committee 2013 – 2015
- IT committee 2011 - 2017
- Department-level staff review panel member 2005 – present
- Faculty-level staff review panel member 2006 – 2007, 2010 - present
- Academic and Professional Standards Committee (APSC) Member, 2005 – 2006
- Teaching Development Grant Committee Member, 2005 - 2006
- Chinese Medicine & Science Specialist Panel Member, 2006 – 2008
- Science Faculty Course Board Member, 1993– 1998
- Science Faculty Examination Board Member, 1998– 2007
- Course planning team member, B.A. (Hons) in Visual Arts, 2004 - 2005
- Course management team member, B.A. (Hons) in Visual Arts, 2005 – 2011
- Course Coordinator, B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science, 1998 – 2007
- Foundation Year Coordinator, 2007 – 2011
- Four-year Curriculum Departmental Representative, 2007 – 2011
- Computer Science Minor Program Coordinator, 2006 - 2011
- Chair of Programme planning team, B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science and Technology, (offered in HKBU Zhuhai Campus), 2004 – 2005
- Student Exchange Coordinator, 2002 - 2003
- Science Faculty Safety Committee Member, 1993 - 1994
- Applied Computing Year II Tutor, 1994 – 1998
- Computer Interfacing Laboratory Manger, 1994 -1998