Prof Ben Pan Hui

Chair Professor of Computational Media and Arts
Director of the Centre for Metaverse
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Professor Pan Hui is a Chair Professor of Computational Media and Arts and Director of the Centre for Metaverse at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (GZ) and a Chair Professor of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a member of Academia Europaea, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He is also the Nokia Chair in Data Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He received his PhD from the Computer Laboratory at University of Cambridge, and both his Bachelor and MPhil degrees from the University of Hong Kong. He was an adjunct Professor of social computing and networking at Aalto University, Finland, and a Distinguished Scientist at the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-labs), Germany. His industrial profile also includes his research at Intel Research Cambridge, UK and Thomson Research Paris, France. Professor Hui is a world-leading expert in Augmented Reality and Mobile Computing, with more than 400 research papers, 30 patents, and over 23,000 citations. He is the technology lead of the MetaHKUST project, an initiative to create the world’s first twin campuses in Metaverse.