Schedule:

12:00 pm – Light lunch
12:30 pm - 1:30om – Presentation, sharing and discussion

Forum Overview:  

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) commits to nurture future-sharping students via transdisciplinary education. The transformation journey started from 2021, and now five transdisciplinary (TD) undergraduate degree programmes crossing technology and different areas (like Arts, Health, Humanities), together with seven TD second majors are being offered, providing students with flexible learning pathways. In this talk, I will present the HKBU’s model of Transdisciplinary Education and some reflection on co-intelligence based on my observations during the past few years of building the "flying plane".

Bio:

Professor William K. Cheung is currently the Associate Vice-President (Transdisciplinary Education), Professor of Computer Science, and Director of Centre of Health Informatics at Hong Kong Baptist University. He was the Head of the Department of Computer Science from 2017 to 2021. He was a Visiting Professor at McGill University in 2016 and 2024, a Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield in 2024, and a Visiting Scholar at the Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California in 2007. Professor Cheung received his BSc and MPhil degrees in Electronics from CUHK in 1991 and 1993 respectively, and a PhD degree in Computer Science from HKUST in 1999. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, data mining, social network analysis, and healthcare informatics.