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Michael Ng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and is also Adjunct Research Fellow in the E-Business Technology Institute at the University of Hong Kong. He did his undergraduate and M.Phil. degrees (from 1987 to 1992) at the University of Hong Kong and obtained his Ph.D. degree from Department of Mathematics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995. He was a Research Fellow in Computer Sciences Laboratory, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering , Australian National University before taking up his current job from September 1997.

He was one of the finalists and honourable mention of Householder Award IX, in 1996 at Switzerland, and obtained an excellent young researcher's presentation at Nanjing International Conference on Optimization and Numerical Algebra, 1999. In 2001, he has been selected as one of the recipients of the Outstanding Young Researcher Award of the University of Hong Kong.

He is now the Public Relations Secretary (2002-2004, 1998-2000) and was the Publications Secretary (2000-2002) of the Hong Kong Mathematical Society. He organizes many conferences and workshops and also serves as program, scientific and organizing committee members in many conferences and workshops. He provides consultancy services to CLP Power, PCCW, HK Government Environmental Protection Department, some finanical companies in Hong Kong, and LOGISTICS, HK Productivity Council Publications. Recently, he is the Principal Investigator of an Innovation and Technology Fund Project (7 millions): Intelligent Classification Technologies for Email Data in Chinese and Mixed Languages .

Michael's research areas are Data Mining, Operations Research and Scientific Computing. He is the faculty member of the Operations Research Group in the Department of Mathematics, the University of Hong Kong. He has research projects in the areas of Numerical Linear Algebra, Signal and Image Processing, Numerical Partial Differential Equations, Data Mining and Parallel Computing. His mathematical publications have been published more than 150 papers in the refereed journals and proceedings. He also serves on the editorial boards of Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, Numerical Mathematics -- A Journal of Chinese Universities (English Series), Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (MULT) , and International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering. He has been the guest editors of the special issues ``Structured Matrices with Applications'' in Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, ``ORG2003" in International Journal of Applied Mathematics, ``High-Resolution Image Reconstruction'' in International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, ``Scientific Computing in Beijing and Hong Kong'', Applied Mathematics and Computation.