{"id":179,"date":"2023-12-15T09:52:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T01:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technohuman.sfu.edu.hk\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:38:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T04:38:55","slug":"keynote-speakers-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/technohuman.sfu.edu.hk\/?page_id=179","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Professor Maurizio Forte<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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William and Sue Gross Distinguished Professor of Classical<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studies, Art, Art History and Visual Studies <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Classical Studies <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duke University<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Professor Maurizio Forte<\/strong> is William and Sue Gross Professor of Classical Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. He is a classical archaeologist and scholar specializing in the innovative use of digital technologies in archaeological research and cultural heritage preservation. He has made significant contributions to the field through interdisciplinary collaboration, cutting-edge technology integration, and pioneering methodologies. Forte’s research interests encompass various aspects of archaeology, including landscape archaeology, virtual reconstructions of ancient sites, and the exploration of the sensory experiences of past civilizations. He is known for his work at several archaeological sites worldwide, where he has applied advanced techniques such as 3D modeling, virtual reality, remote sensing, AI and neuroscience applications to enhance our understanding of ancient cultures. In addition to his scholarly endeavors, Maurizio Forte has published a substantial body of literature, comprising over 200 research papers, and he is author and editor of 23 books.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Professor Wong Kam-fai<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Associate Dean (External Affairs)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty of Engineering<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Professor Wong Kam-fai<\/strong> is the Associate Dean (External Affairs) of the Faculty of Engineering, Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Director of Centre for Innovation and Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Wong\u2019s research interest primarily revolves Chinese computing, database and information retrieval. He\u2019s an ACL Fellow and is very active in professional and public service. He serves as Member of the 13th & 14th National Committee of the CPPCC, Member of the 7th Legislative Council of the HKSAR, Advisor of Our Hong Kong Foundation, Vice-Chairman of Hong Kong Professionals and Senior Executives Association, Vice Chairman & Secretary General of Hong Kong Alliance of Technology and Innovation, Director of Finance Dispute Resolution Centre, Executive Member of Council for the Promotion of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cooperation, Member of the Standing Committee of Shenzhen Association for Science and Technology, and Advisor of Guangzhou Association for Science and Technology, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Wong was awarded the Medal of Honour (MH) by the HKSAR Government in 2011 for his contributions to IT development in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Professor Hui Yuk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Eramus School of Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eramus University Rotterdam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

School of Creative Media<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

City University of Hong Kong<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Professor Hui Yuk<\/strong> is professor of philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and professor at the City University of Hong Kong. Hui is author of several monographs that have been translated into a dozen languages, including\u00a0On the Existence of Digital Objects<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2016),\u00a0The Question Concerning Technology in China:-An Essay in Cosmotechnics<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2016),\u00a0Recursivity and Contingency<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2019), Art and Cosmotechnics<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2021), and forthcoming Machine and Sovereignty<\/em> (University of Minnesota Press, 2024).\u00a0 Hui is editor of 30 Years after Les immat\u00e9riaux: Art, Science and Theory<\/em> (2015), \u00a0Philosophy after Automation\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Philosophy Today<\/em>, Vol.65. No.2, 2021), Cybernetics for the 21st<\/sup> Century<\/em> (2024) among others. Hui has been convenor of the\u00a0Research Network for Philosophy and Technology\u00a0<\/a> since 2014 and sits as a juror of the\u00a0Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture<\/a>\u00a0since 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Professor Lee Ou-fan, Leo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Research Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ip Ying To Lee Yu Yee School of Humanities and Languages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caritas Institute of Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Professor Lee Ou-fan, Leo<\/strong> is an internationally renowned scholar whose main research areas are Chinese and\u00a0Western literature\u00a0and cultural studies. He has authored numerous books, with over a hundred publications to his name, including notable works such as The\u00a0Romantic Generation\u00a0of\u00a0Modern Chinese Writers<\/em>, Voices from the Iron House: A Study of Lu Xun<\/em> and Shanghai Modern: The Emergence of a New Urban Culture in China 1930-1945<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Henan and raised in Taiwan, Professor Lee graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University in 1961 and obtained a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University in 1970. He has taught at various international institutions, including The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1970-1972, 2004-2019), Princeton University (1972-1976), Indiana University (1976-1982), The University of Chicago (1982-1990), UCLA (1990-1994), and Harvard University (1994-2004).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, Prof. Lee was offered an invitation by Prof. Chan Sin Wai, the Dean of the School of Humanities and Languages, to serve as an honorary professor at CIHE. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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Professor Chan Sin-wai<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Professor-cum-Dean<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ip Ying To Lee Yu Yee School of Humanities and Languages<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caritas Institute of Higher Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Professor Chan Sin-wai<\/strong> is Dean of the School of Humanities and Languages, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, President of the Association for Translation Technology, and was a member of the Translation Technology Committee of the International Federation of Translators (FIT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He received his Bachelor of Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and his doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has taught courses in translation technology and computer-aided translation for many years. His research interests lie in translation technology, bilingual lexicography, and Chinese-English translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has to date published 66 academic books in 73 volumes. His book publications on translation technology include The Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Technology<\/em> (Routledge 2015, 2023), The Human Factor in Machine Translation<\/em> (Routledge 2018), The Future of Translation Technology: Towards a World without Babel<\/em> (Routledge 2017),  \u300a\u7ffb\u8b6f\u79d1\u6280\u65b0\u8996\u91ce\u300b(New Vistas in Translation Technology<\/em>) (Tsinghua University Press 2014), The Teaching of Computer-aided Translation<\/em>, Special Issue of the Journal of Translation Studies (Chinese University Press 2010), A Topical Bibliography of Computer (-aided) Translation<\/em> (Chinese University Press, 2008), A Dictionary of Translation Technology<\/em> (Chinese University Press, 2004), and Translation and Information Technology<\/em> (The Chinese University Press 2002). His forthcoming publication is Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities<\/em> (2024, in press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He played a key role in the establishment of the Techno-Humanities Research Centre at the School of Humanities and Languages of Caritas Institute of Higher Education in 2021 with a UGC funding. He has conducted research projects on translation technology and techno-humanities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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Professor Gualtiero Piccinini<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Curators’ Distinguished Proefssor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Department of Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Missouri – St. Louis<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Professor Gualtiero Piccinini<\/strong> is Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Center for Neurodynamics at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. In 2014, he received the Herbert A. Simon Award from the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. In 2018, he received the K. Jon Barwise Prize from the American Philosophical Association. In 2019, he received the Chancellor’s Award for Research and Creativity from University of Missouri – St. Louis. His publications include Physical Computation: A Mechanistic Account (Oxford University Press, 2015), Neurocognitive Mechanisms: Explaining Biological Cognition (Oxford University Press, 2020), and The Physical Signature of Computation: A Robust Mapping Account (with Neal G. Anderson, Oxford University Press, forthcoming).<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Professor Leong Lampo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Distinguished Professor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Macau<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Professor Lampo Leong<\/strong> received his PhD from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, MFA, California College of the Arts, is currently a Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Advisor, and Director of Center for Arts and Design at the University of Macau. Leong is also a Tenured Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the USA and Visiting Professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Leong has served as curator and judge for over 60 art exhibitions and competitions and presented more than 260 lectures across the US and Asia in institutions such as Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and China Academy of Art. Leong\u2019s work has been featured in Christie\u2019s, and in art expos, museums, and galleries worldwide through more than 70 solo and over 415 juried and curated national and international group exhibitions and has received over 100 awards. Leong\u2019s works can be found in more than ten museums, including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, as well as public art commissions for Columbia City Hall, and an 8-meter-diameter granite inset calligraphic medallion for a San Francisco city park. Leong\u2019s achievements have been documented in over 1000 reviews and publications in magazines, art books, and on TV internationally, including the front cover of the New Art International<\/em> in New York, Art Frontier<\/em> in California, and the Creative Genius: 100 Contemporary Artists<\/em> in London.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Professor Eric Friginal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Professor and Head of Department of English and Communication<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hong Kong Polytechnic University<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Professor Eric Friginal<\/strong> is Professor and Head of Department of English and Communication at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is also the director of PolyU\u2019s Research Center in Professional Communication in English (RCPCE). Before moving to Hong Kong, he was Professor and Director of International Programs at the Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL, College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University. He specializes in applied corpus linguistics, quantitative research, language policy and planning, technology and language teaching, sociolinguistics, cross-cultural communication, discipline-specific writing, and the analysis of spoken professional discourse in the workplace. His recent publications include\u00a0The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis<\/em>\u00a0(2021), co-edited with Jack Hardy; English in Global Aviation: Context, Research, and Pedagogy<\/em>, with Elizabeth Mathews and Jennifer Roberts (2020); and\u00a0Corpus Linguistics for English Teachers: New Tools, Online Resources, and Classroom Activities<\/em> (2018). He is the founding co- editor-in-chief of Applied Corpus Linguistics (ACORP) Journal (with Paul Thompson).<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Professor Gloria Corpas Pastor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Department of Translation and Interpreting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty of Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Malaga<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Professor Gloria Corpas Pastor<\/strong> obtained her BA in German Philology (English) from the University of Malaga. PhD in English Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1994). Visiting Professor in Translation Technology at the Research Institute in Information and Language Processing (RIILP) of the University of Wolverhampton, UK (2007-2023), honorary Adjunct Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China (since 2020), and Professor in Translation and Interpreting at the University of Malaga, Spain (since 2008). Published and cited extensively, member of several international and national editorial and scientific committees. Spanish delegate for AEN\/CTN 174 and CEN\/BTTF 138, Spanish expert for TC37\/SC5, where she has been convenor of ISO TC37\/SC5AHG2 \u201cSpeech to Text\u201d (2019-2023). Extensive experience in institutional evaluation programmes, including verification, monitoring and accreditation (ANECA, AQU, ACCUEE, DEVA, AQU, etc.). President of the Evaluation and Verification Commission (Arts and Humanities) at Fundaci\u00f3n para el Conocimiento Madri+d, and President of the Evaluation Committee (the Arts and Humanities) at ACCUEE. She also collaborates regularly as evaluator for the Spanish Ministry in various R&D and youth employment programmes. She has recently been awarded the \u201c2017 Farola Award\u201d in the field of New Technologies, given by the Andalusian Women\u2019s Institute, Junta de Andaluc\u00eda; the Certificate of Commendation-Saint Francis Prize in Techno-Humanities 2022, given by the Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong; the \u201cDoctora de Alcal\u00e1 Award\u201d for her excellent track-record in Arts and the Humanities (2022), given by the University of Alcala; and \u201cFlag of Andalucia Award\u201d on Research, Science and Healthcare (2023), granted by the Andalusian Government. First Prize in the Spin-Off competition (XXVII Edition, 2023).President of AIETI (Iberian Association of Translation and Interpreting Studies, 2015-2017), Vice-President of AMIT-A (Association of Women in Science and Technology of Andalusia, 2014-2017), and Director of the Department of Translation and Interpreting of the University of Malaga (2016-2021). She is currently director of the Research Institute in Multilingual Language Technologies (IUITLM).<\/p>\n<\/div>

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