Biography

Professor Reynold Cheng is currently the Division Head and Professor (Computer Science), at the School of Computing and Data Science, in the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He is a Steering Committee Member of the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science. He is an academic advisor to the College of Professional and Continuing Education of HKPU. He was an Associate Dean of Engineering in 2022-24. His research interests are in data science, big graph analytics and uncertain data management.

Professor Cheng is named the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Database in 2023 and 2024. He received the ACM Distinguished Membership Award and the HKU Outstanding Research Student Supervisor Award in 2023. He was listed as the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2022. He received the SIGMOD Research Highlights Reward 2020, HKICT Awards (2021, 2023), HKU Knowledge Exchange Award (2024) and HKU Knowledge Exchange Award (Engineering) (2024, 2021). He was granted an Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2011-12 by HKU. He received the Universitas 21 Fellowship in 2011, and two HKPU Computing Performance Awards in 2006 and 2007. He was a PC co-chair of IEEE ICDE 2021. He is on the editorial board of IS, DAPD and DSEJ.