Staff Profile

Biography

Dr. Kevin Hung is the Head of Department of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science and Associate Professor at the School of Science & Technology, Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU). He has been the principal investigator of school and government-funded projects on telehealth, mobile health, biosignal processing, and exergaming system. Before joining HKMU, Dr. Hung had been Assistant Project Manager at the Joint Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Electronic Engineer at a medical device company. Dr. Hung received his B.Sc. from Queen’s University, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from CUHK. His research interests are biosignal processing, biosystem modelling, mobile health and wearable sensors. He is a founding officer of the IEEE-EMBS Hong Kong Chapter, and has been serving as the founding Counsellor of the IEEE HKMU Student Branch. He is the Vice-Chair of IEEE Hong Kong Section, Immediate Past Chair of the Electronics and Communications Section (ECS), IET Hong Kong, and Branch Committee of IET Hong Kong.

Teaching Areas & Research Interests

• Biomedical Engineering
• Mobile Health & Telehealth
• Biosignal Processing & Biosystem Simulation
• Engineering Education
• Quantum AI for Biosignal Processing
• Medical Device
• Biomedical Informatics

Academic & Professional Experience

• PI, RGC FDS, “Development of Novel Quaternion Signal Processing & Feature Extraction Methods for the Monitoring and Early Detection of Mental Disorders in a Head-based Mobile Health System,” HK$800,960 (2024-2025)
• PI, HKMU R&D Fund, “Quantum Machine Learning for Electroencephalogram Classification,” HK$200,000 (2023-2025)
• Co-I, HKMU R&D FUnd, "Intelligent Data-driven Wrieless Networks," HK$1,480,566 (2023-2025)
• Co-I, RGC FDS, “Development of Smart Analytic System with IoT Technology for Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff in Suburban Agricultural Area," HK$1,183,975 (2023-2025)
• Co-I, HKMU R&D Fund, “Developing Real-time Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems: From Algorithm to Performance Optimization," HK$200,000 (2023-2025)
• Co-PI, Donation to EdUHK / RMGS, "Evaluation of an Innovative Therapeutic Approach for Social Referencing Disorder in Children with ASD: The Rope Therapy," HK$300,000 (2023-2024)
• Co-I, Donation to HKMU / RMGS, "Preventing Frailty in Elderly Home Residents by Using Gerontechnology," HK$1,500,000 (2023-2024)
• PI, HKMU RMG (centrol pot), "Extracting Causal Relationship Between Emotion & Cause from Documents," HK$948,896 (2022-2024)
• Co-I, HKMU RMG (centrol pot), "Interdisciplinary Research Development on Smart City," HK$5,326,800 (2022-2025)
• Co-I, HKMU RIF, "Smart City Data Collection & Generation for Open Data Repository," HK$938,501 (2022-2024)
• PI, RGC FDS, “Modelling of Pupillary Muscles' Range Nonlinearity Effects on Pupil-based Evaluation of Autonomic Nervous System,” HK$761,400 (2022-2023)
• PI, OUHK RMG (central pot), "Development of Renewable Energy-based Charging Stations for Powering Scientific Outposts & Data Collection Kiosks in Off-grid Villages," HKD157,200 (2021)
• PI, OUHK R&D Fund, “Investigation of Pupillary Dynamics using a Head-Mounted System,” HK$80,000 (2019-2020)
• PI, RGC FDS project, “Development of an Exergaming System with Haptic Feedback for the Investigation of Energy Expenditure & Muscle Activities during Sports Training,” HK$663,519 (2016-2018)
• PI, OUHK S&T Research Fund, “Feasibility Study of Using Wireless Tablet Computers for On-site Inspection & Certification of Commodities,” HK$13,266 (2012)
• PI, OUHK R&D Fund, “Development of a Novel Biosensor-Integrated Shirt for Mobile Health,” HK$385,212 (2010-2012)

Awards:

• President's Awards for Teaching Excellence (2015 & 2021)
• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Workshop on System Biology & Biomedical Systems 2018, Hong Kong.
• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics – China 2015, Shenzhen, China.
• Beat Paper Award, 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Vienna, 2013.
• Outstanding Paper Award (2007): “Implementation of a WAP-based telemedicine system for patient-monitoring,” IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine for paper with the most citations in previous five years.

Selected Publications

Books

• K.Y. Angus Wong, K.F. Kevin Hung, K.L. Eddie Law, Eds., Smart Cities, Smart System and Smart Environment Awareness, Environmental Publication House Hong Kong. Hong Kong, 2017.

Book Chapters

• C.C.Y. Poon and K. Hung, “Mobile Health (m-Health): Intelligent Closed-Loop Solutions for Personalised Healthcare,” in The Handbook of Electronic Medicine, Electronic Health, Telemedicine, Telehealth and Mobile Health, CRC Press, Dec 2015.
• K. Hung, C.C. Lee, and S.-O. Choy, “Ubiquitous Health Monitoring: Integration of Wearable Sensors, Novel Sensing Techniques, and Body Sensor Networks,” in Mobile Health (mHealth): The Technology Road Map, Springer, Mar 2015.
• K. Hung, S.D. Bao and Y.T. Zhang, “Mobile Health,” in Encyclopedia of Wireless & Mobile Communications, Taylor & Francis, 2008.
• K. Hung and Y.T. Zhang, “Telemedicine,” in Wiley Encyclopaedia of Biomedical Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
• K. Hung and Y.T. Zhang, “Wireless Internet in Telemedicine,” in Wireless Internet Handbook: Technologies, Standards & Applications, CRC Press, 2003.

Journal Articles

• J. Gu, K. Hung, B.W.K. Ling, D.H.K. Chow, Y. Zhou, Y. Fu, and S.H. Pun, "Generalized Singular Spectrum Analysis for the Decomposition and Analysis of Non-stationary Signals," Journal of the Franklin Institute, DOI: 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2024.106696, Feb 2024.
• J. Gu, Y. Fu, and K. Hung, "On Intelligent Placement Decision-Making Algorithms for Wireless Digital Twin Networks via Bandit Learning," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2024.3360959, Feb 2024.
• K. Shi, Y. Fu, and K. Hung, "A Diversified Recommendation Scheme for Wireless Content Caching Networks, " IEEE Internet of Things Journal, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3343364, Dec 2023.
• Y. Fu, Y. Shan, Q. Zhu, K. Hung, Y. Wu, and T.Q.S. Quek, "A Distributed Microservice-aware Paradigm for 6G: Challenges, Principles, and Research Opportunities," IEEE Network Magazine, DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2023.3321528, Oct 2023.
• A.K.F. Lui, Y.H. Chan, and K. Hung, “Functional Objects in Urban Environments and Pedestrian Trajectory Modelling,” Sensors, Vol. 23, Iss. 10, 4882, May 2023.
• Y. Fu, J. Liu, J. Ke, J.K.T. Chui, and K.K.F. Hung, “Optimal and Suboptimal Dynamic Cache Update Algorithms for Wireless Cellular Networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letter, Vol 11, Iss. 12, pp. 2610-2614, Dec 2022.
• X. Li, K.-Y. Wong, K. Hung, and Y. Wang, “Joint Optimization Scheme for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Multi-Relay Networks,” IET Communications, Vol. 16, Iss. 3, pp. 1498-1508, Aug 2022.
• R. Ho and K. Hung, "EEG Analysis and Classification based on Cardinal Spline Empirical Mode Decomposition and Synchrony Features," Medical & Biological Engineering and Computing, Vol. 60, pp. 2359-2372, Jun 2022.
• J.O. Ajadi, A. Wong, T. Mahmood, and K. Hung, “A New Multivariate CUSUM Chart for Monitoring of Covariance Matrix with Individual Observations Under Estimated Parameter,” Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 38, Iss. 2, pp. 834-847, Mar 2022.
• K.-W. Tse and K. Hung, "Framework for User Behavioral Biometric Identification Using a Multimodal Scheme with Keystroke Trajectory Feature and Recurrent Neural Network on a Mobile Platform," IET Biometrics, Vol. 11, Iss. 2, pp.157-170, Mar 2022.
• K. Hung, H.-Y. Cheung, N. Wan, E. Lee, C.-N. Lai, K. Pan, R. Liang, C. Chu, S.-O. Choy, D. Ng, and D. Chow, “Design, Development, and Evaluation of Upper and Lower Limb Orthoses with Intelligent Control for Rehabilitation," IET Science, Measurement & Technology, Vol. 15, Iss. 9, pp. 738-748, Nov 2021.
• J.O. Ajadi, K. Hung, M. Riaz, N.A. Ajadi, and T. Mahmood, “On the Multivariate Progressive Control Chart for Effective Monitoring of Covariance Matrix,” Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 37, Iss. 6, pp. 2724-2737, Oct 2021.
• S. Zhang, Y. Cheng, D. Luo, J. He, K.-Y. Wong, and K. Hung, “Channel Attention Convolutional Neural Network for Chinese Baijiu Detection with E-Nose,” IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 21, Iss. 14, pp. 16170-16182, Jul 2021.
• J. Guo, Y. Cheng, D. Luo, K.-Y. Wong, K. Hung, and X. Li, ”ODRP: A Deep Learning Framework for Odor Descriptor Rating Prediction Using Electronic Nose, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 21, Iss. 13, pp. 15012-15021, Jul 2021.
• X. Li, D. Luo, Y. Cheng, K.-Y. Wong, and K. Hung, “Identifying the Primary Odor Perception Descriptors by using Multi-output Regression Models,” Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Iss. 8, 3320, Apr 2021.
• X. Li, D. Luo, Y. Cheng, K.-Y. Wong, and K. Hung, ”A Perception-driven Framework for Predicting Missing Odor Perceptual Ratings and an Exploration of Odor Perceptual Space,” IEEE Access, Vol. 8, Iss. 1, pp. 29595-29607, Feb 2020.
• D. Wu, Y. Cheng, D. Luo, K.-Y. Wong, K. Hung, and Z. Yan, “POP-CNN: Predicting Odor Pleasantness with Convolutional Neural Network,” IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 19, Iss. 23, pp. 11337-11345, Dec 2019.
• Y. Cheng, A. Wong, K. Hung, Z. Li, and W. Li, “Deep Nearest Class Mean Model for Incremental Odor Classification,” IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 68, Iss. 4, pp. 952-962, Apr 2019.
• A. Wong, K.P. Pun, Y.T. Zhang and K. Hung, “A Near-infrared Heart Rate Measurement IC with Very Low Cutoff Frequency using Current Steering Technique,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems: Part-I, Vol. 52, No. 12, pp. 2642-2647, Dec 2005.
• K. Hung and Y.T. Zhang, “Implementation of a WAP-based Telemedicine System for Patient-monitoring,” in IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 7, No.2, Jun 2003.
• Y.T. Zhang, L. Li, K. Hung, and J. Woo, "Telemedicine and Cyberhospital for Health Care Delivery in the 21st Century," Journal of World Medical Instrumentation, 2000.

Selected Professional & Community Services

• Vice Chair, IEEE Hong Kong Section
• Immediate Past Chair, Electronics & Communications Section (ECS), IET Hong Kong
• Founding Secretary (2006), Chair (2010), Committee (present), IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) Hong Kong - Macau Joint Chapter
• Committee, IET Hong Kong Branch
• Honorary Secretary, CIE Hong Kong
• Counselor, IEEE HKMU Student Branch

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