Sydney Chu [2015] has been a professor
(specializing in Operations Research) in the
Department of Mathematics at the
University of Hong Kong since 22 December 1978.
He did his undergraduate (from 1969 to 1973) and master degree work (in
1974) at
Cornell University and obtained his
Eng.Sc.D. from
Columbia University in
1978.
He was elected as Fellow of
Institute of Mathematics & its Applications
(FIMA) in Dec 2011.
He formally reached his HKU retirement on 2012.06.30 and was on extension beyond retirement
for the three-year period during 2012.07.01-2015.06.30 of full-time teaching at HKU. He is
currently an Honorary Professor at HKU since 1 Dec 2015.