Patrick C. K. Hung  

Assistant Professor
Faculty of Business and Information Technology
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)
Canada
Email: patrick.hung@uoit.ca

 

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo
Canada
Email: tba

 

Background Bio

Patrick C. K. Hung is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business and Information Technology in the University of Ontario Institute of Technology since July 2004. He is currently cooperating with Boeing Phantom Works (Seattle, USA) and Bell Canada's Privacy Center of Excellence (Toronto, Canada) on an industrial security- and privacy-related research project respectively. Before that, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong and a Research Scientist with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) at Canberra in Australia. He also has prior industrial experience in e-business projects in North America and Hong Kong. From 2000 to present, Patrick has been serving as a panelist of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA. He is an executive committee member of the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Steering Committee for Services Computing (TSC-SC), a steering committee member of the IEEE EDOC, an associate editor/editorial board member in several international journals, and a program organizer/committee member in international conferences/workshops. He has been a book reviewer for Prentice Hall and Springer, and also a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Programming .NET Web Services, the IEEE Computer magazine, the IEEE Internet Computing magazine, the Decision Support Systems (DSS), the VLDB Journal, the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, and etc.

Patrick has a Ph.D. (completed in part-time basis) and Master of Philosophy Science, both in Computer Science, from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. Further, he has a Master of Applied Science in Management Sciences (completed in part-time basis) from the University of Waterloo (UW), Canada. He did his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. On the other hand, Patrick has been studied at CLC Japanese Language Institute at Tokyo in Japan and he got Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4 Certificate of Japanese-Language Proficiency (Administered by the Japan Foundation and Association of International Education Japan). He has also been a visiting Ph.D. student at RSA Laboratories West at San Mateo, California.

Research Interests: Security and Privacy, Services Computing, Business Process Integration, Electronic Negotiation and Agreement.

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Significant Systems Development Experience

Patrick has been worked as a technical consultant for supporting e-procurement systems for different clients (Cooper, Gannet and WesternGeo) in the USA while he was working at Metiom Inc. On the other hand, he also has been worked as a programmer at Evercarry Limited for implementing the EDI systems at Shell in Hong Kong, an assistant computer officer at the computer center for supporting the financial systems at the Hong Kong University, and an assistant computer engineer at the Cyberspace Center in Hong Kong. In addition to this, he has also been involved in R&D for the following industrial projects:

Project: Preventive Health (p-health) -- conducted at CSIRO, Australia, 2002-2004.
Designing and developing a Web Services-based framework for Health Data Integration (HDI) in Australia.

Project: Truckcenter.com --  conducted at Entrade Inc., USA, 2000-2001.
Developing an auction web site for supporting auction activities in truck sale business at Truckcenter Inc. in the USA.

Project: Chapters.ca --  conducted at Cyberplex Inc., Canada, 1999-2000.
Developing a recommendation engine for supporting the functionality of "Our customers who bought this item also bought" feature by using data mining techniques at Chapters online bookstore in Canada.

Project: Web-based Smart Card Payment System (SmartFlow) -- conducted at Cyberspace Center, Hong Kong, 1997-1999.
Designing and developing a Web-based smart card payment system for supporting micro-payment.