Biography

Dr. Simon K.S. Cheung obtained his BSc and PhD in Computer Science from the City University of Hong Kong, and his Master of Public Administration with Distinction from the University of Hong Kong. He also received senior executive training from Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Oxford Said Business School and HKU Business School. A Chartered Engineer, Chartered Scientist and Chartered IT Professional, Dr. Cheung was admitted as a Fellow of the British Computer Society, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers,  and Fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society.

Dr. Cheung is currently the Director of IT in the Hong Kong Metropolitan University, overseeing the university IT services for teaching, learning, research and administration. He has been working in the higher education sector (with the Open University of Hong Kong, the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Baptist University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong) for over 30 years in various administrative capacities, mainly in IT and educational technology, while also assuming some academic duties such as course development, teaching and research. He has successfully led a number of key initiatives and projects, pertaining to enterprise systems, business process reengineering, campus IT infrastructure, electronic library, learning commons, blended learning, academic analytics and student advising. He played a pivotal role in implementing ERP systems in the Open University of Hong Kong, and deploying blended learning in SPACE, the University of Hong Kong. The former won the Hong Kong ICT Award (Best Business Solution) Special Award in 2015, and the latter won the Excellent Team Performance Award from SPACE, the University of Hong Kong in 2008.

Dr. Cheung is active in professional research, with near 200 publications in the form of books, book chapters, journal articles and conference papers, mainly in two distinct areas, namely, innovation and technology in education, and software and system engineering. He received the Outstanding Research Publication Award from the Open University of Hong Kong in 2016. Other awards in recognition of his achievement include the First Class Achievement in Computer Science and IT from the Shenzhen Science and Technology Association in 2016, the Outstanding CIO Award from the Hong Kong IT Joint Council in 2015, an Honouree for IT Excellence, CIO Award from the CIO Asia in 2015, and awards from international conferences such as best paper awards, excellent paper awards and best presentation awards. He has been listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering since 2007.

Selected Professional & Community Services

• Honorary Consultant on e-Learning, Beijing Open University
• Vice Chairman, International Hybrid Learning Society
• Deputy Chairman, CPD Committee, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
• Accreditation Committee for Computer Science Programmes, Hong Kong Institution of Engineers
• Editor, Innovation and Technology in Education Section, SN Computer Science
• Associate Editor, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
• International Advisory Board, International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
• Editorial Board, The Educational Review

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