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LEE, Jimmy Ho Man B.Math., M.Math. (Waterloo), Ph.D. (Victoria) - Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Director Center for the Advancement of IT in Education

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems to make a man more clever devil.” C.S. Lewis

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Jimmy Lee graduated on the Dean's Honours List with an Honours BMath degree, majoring both in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1987. He read his MMath degree in Computer Science in 1988 also from Waterloo. Jimmy then moved to the University of Victoria, Canada, and completed his doctoral study in 1992 under the supervision of Maarten van Emden in the area of constraint logic programming. During his graduate studies, he was involved in research projects funded by IBM (Canada) and the Canadian Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems. Upon graduation, Jimmy returned to Hong Kong and joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a Professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. He was Graduate Division Head during 2008-11 and is now in charge of the Department’s curricula. Jimmy's research focuses on the theory and practice of constraint satisfaction and optimization with applications in combinatorial optimization, scheduling, and resource allocation. In particular, he is interested in problem modeling, stochastic local search, symmetry breaking, global constraints, and over-constrained problems. In recent years, he started researching on novel Web-based learning platforms and accompanying pedagogies, particularly in the design and development of educational games (take a look at Tong Pak Fu and Chou Heung: the Probabilistic Fantasy, Farmtasia, Learning Villages, and Farmtasia 2). He is also a Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Information Technology in Education (CAITE) under the umbrella of the Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Inspired by his many former good teachers from elementary school to universities, Jimmy received the Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award in 2005 and the Faculty of Engineering Exemplary Teaching Award for the academic years 1998-99, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2002-03, and 2004-05. He was also recognized for his outstanding services with the Faculty of Engineering by the Faculty Service Award for 2003-04.

Besides being active in local community services, Jimmy is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, AAAI Press, the CONSTRAINTS journal, Springer, the Journal of Discrete Algorithms, Elsevier, and Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, World Scientific Publishing. He co-edits the Constraint Programming Newsletter with Eric Monfroy and Toby Walsh. Jimmy was an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Constraint Programming during 2006-09, and has been serving as the Secretary of the Association since 2006. He is a Co-Chair of the Doctoral Consortium of IJCAI 2013, a Senior Program Committee member of AAAI 2012, and a Program Committee member of ECAI 2012, Edutainment 2012, DIGITEL 2012, the Constraint Solving and Programming Track of ACM SAC 2012 and GCCCE 2012.

Jimmy was the Program Chair of CP 2011, held in beautiful Perugia (see wonderful photos taken by Helmut Simonis) and organized by Stefano Bistarelli.

Jimmy considers himself a fairly athletic person. Besides being a mediocre table-tennis and soccer player, Jimmy started long distance running in year 2000 as a hobby to torture his body and clean up his soul (if there is one). His immediate next goal is to finish a full marathon under 4 hours (achieved his personal best of 4 hours 4 minutes 33 seconds painfully at the 29eme Marathon International de Paris), although he is in semi-hibernation now. He also claimed the “Fastest Old Men” title (Staff Category) at the 2005 New Asia College Happy Run event (can you find me there?), dashing approximately 7.5K from the New Asia College to the Prince of Wales Hospital. Together with his good and long-time partner, Ronald Chung, Jimmy captured the 2nd Runners-Up in the Men's Double Table-Tennis Event of the 2005 Hong Kong Teacher Tennis and Table-Tennis Competition. In 2011, Jimmy reached the peak of his totally-non-professional career by partnering with CC Ah Lung to claim the championship in the Men’s Double Event of the CUHK Staff Table-Tennis Tournament. Look at the “angry” player in action at the 2011 Hong Kong Teacher Table-Tennis Competition, in which our CUHK team captured the team championship. On the social side, Jimmy enjoys alcohol sampling (see the pretending connoisseur in action) and random rumbling. Jimmy is fortunate to have many good friends and colleagues. Besides being good companions to Jimmy in many activities, they care also about his spiritual behavior and purity with K.H. Wong presenting him the nice t-shirt. His good colleague, K.H. Lee, gave him a bottle of ultimate sports drink for marathoners (a.k.a. Chinese vodka) to ease his training pain.

Jimmy and his wife (and another friend) had the pleasure of taking this photo with Prof. Charles Kao and Mrs. Kao, 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physics, on March 27, 2009 (half a year before the prize was announced), at the 20^th Anniversary dinner of the Chinese University Women’s Organization (CUWO).

If you are bored, take a look at some of the quotes, jokes, and writings and proverbs that Jimmy has collected over the years (some in Chinese). Please share this present with all. Also, this Management Lesson would certainly benefit you for a lifetime. What is the truth in the corporate world? It depends on the viewing angle. This amazing piece relates coffee, coffee cups, and life (read it even if you don’t like coffee). If you are male, don’t miss this Cautionary Tale for Men (in Chinese) which teaches us all an important lesson. Everyone has parents, and everyone should read this (in Chinese). We don’t want to be the cause of a heart-attack (in Chinese), do we? You may change your personal philosophy after seeing this Tibetian Monks’ sand art (in Chinese). Are you upset today? If so, read this (in Chinese). The commencement address by Steve Jobs at the Stanford University tells the making of a true pioneer. Are you the ants in this fable (Chinese and English)? If you are nostalgic about Hong Kong, don’t miss this wonderful photo collection of Hong Kong dated back to 1946 (captions in Chinese). How about an 8-minute video (narration in English) of 1937 Hong Kong? This (in Chinese) will soothe you from the midlife crisis. Jimmy teaches, and this is what his classroom is like. Jimmy researches, and this is academic freedom. Jimmy is a professor, and that’s what others think of him. Believe it or not, more can become less. Jimmy hopes that you will enjoy and learn from his collection as much as he did.

Address: Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, N.T. Hong Kong Phone: +852 3943-8426 Fax: +852 2603-5024

jlee ‘at’ cse.cuhk.edu.hk

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