Ir Prof. Benny Cheung is Chair Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is an elected Fellow of International Academy of Engineering and Technology (AET Fellow) and the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP Fellow). His research interest in Knowledge and Technology Management includes Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge-based Systems, Knowledge Auditing, Intellectual Capital Management, Intellectual Property Management, Technology Forecasting and Roadmapping, Knowledge Mining and Knowledge Systems Technology. His research in KTM and enterprise systems encompasses broad-based research of methods and tools built on the basis of Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence Technologies for supporting the management of knowledge and technology for enterprises from various industries such as Manufacturing, Public Utilities, Social Services, etc. Up to present, he has authored and co-authored more 300 Science Citation Indexed (SCI)/Social Science Citation Indexed (SSCI) refereed journal papers. Prof. Cheung has received many research prizes and awards such as the 2008 ASAIHL-Scopus Young Scientist Awards–First Runner Up Prize in the category of “Engineering and Technology”, Joseph Whitworth Prize 2010 and A M Strickland Prize 2017 by the Manufacturing Industrial Division of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), UK in 2011, Winner of the IET Innovation Award for Manufacturing Technology in 2017, by Manufacturing Industries Division of IMechE, UK, Bank of China Hong Kong (BOCHK) Science and Technology Innovation Prize 2023–Advanced Manufacturing, etc.

Professor Reynold Cheng is currently the Division Head and Professor (AI & Data 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.
Prof Cheng was named the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Database in 2023 to 2025. 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), HKU Engineering Knowledge Exchange Award (2024, 2021), and HKU Engineering Best Teaching Award (2023, 2024), and HKU Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2011-12. 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 PVLDB, ACM TSAS, IS, DAPD, and DSEJ.