K.-T. Tim Cheng received his Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. He has been serving as Dean of Engineering and Chair Professor of ECE and CSE at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) since May 2016. He worked at Bell Laboratories from 1988 to 1993 and joined the faculty at Univ. of California, Santa Barbara in 1993 where he was the founding director of UCSB’s Computer Engineering Program (1999-2002), Chair of the ECE Department (2005-2008) and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research (2013-2016). His current research interests include AI accelerator design, EDA, computer vision, and medical image analysis. He has recently led the founding of the AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems (ACCESS) which is a multidisciplinary center aims to advance IC design to help realize ubiquitous AI applications in society.

Cheng, an IEEE fellow and a fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences a, received 10+ Best Paper Awards from various IEEE and ACM conferences and journals. He has also received UCSB College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Faculty Award, Pan Wen Yuan Outstanding Research Award, 2020,  and Fellow of School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. He served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Design and Test of Computers and was a board member of IEEE Council of Electronic Design Automation’s Board of Governors and IEEE Computer Society’s Publication Board.