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

“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 and Graduate Division Head in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. 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 Co-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 board of the CONSTRAINTS journal, Springer, and the Journal of Discrete Algorithms, Elsevier. 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 on the Program Committee of the CP track of ACM-SAC 2010, DIGITEL 2010, GCCCE 2010, CP 2010, and AAAI 2010.

Jimmy considers himself a fairly athletic person. Besides being a mediocre table-tennis and soccer player, Jimmy has started long distance running 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). 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. 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. A colleague gave him a bottle of ultimate sports drink for marathoners (a.k.a. Chinese vodka).

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). Jimmy hopes that you will enjoy and learn from these writings 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 2609-8426 Fax: +852 2603-5024

jlee ‘at’ cse.cuhk.edu.hk

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