Alumnus keen to welcome CQUni friends to Hong Kong conference
Published on 18 May, 2011
CQUniversity PhD graduate Philip Tsang is keen to welcome academics from his alma mater to the upcoming ... ICT2011, teaching and learning conference or ICT2011 health care symposium, which he is hosting in Hong Kong from July 11-13.
Dr Tsang, who graduated in 2000 with his PhD in Communications/Informatics, is juggling his organising committee role with his position as Vice President (Academic and Research) of the Caritas Institute of Higher Education. The Caritas Institute is a newly-accredited degree granting higher education institute with 40 years of history. It aspires to become the first Catholic university in China.
"I'm proud of my Queensland education experience and would be delighted to entertain students, staff, professionals and government officials from Queensland at ICT2011," he says.
"I would be delighted to receive them at the Peninsula hotel when they visit Hong Kong."
Before joining Caritas, Dr Tsang worked his way up from lecturer to become Associate Professor in Communications Technology at the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK). He gained the prestigious OUHK President's Award for Distinguished Achievement over three years between 2007-2009.
Professor Tsang's publications have appeared under leading imprints such as Oxford University Press, Wiley, Elsevier, IEEE, Springer, and World Scientific. He has not forgotten his own backyard either, with works published by CityU and OUHK Press.
As an innovative and creative scholar, since 2002 during Guinness World Record Week Professor Tsang has organised the Hong Kong Longitudinal WiFi Sea, Land and Air Surveys projects.
He has been associated with acknowledged 'father of the web' Sir Tim Berners-Lee, as both are founding members of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee, (IW3C2).
During the decade since graduation from CQUniversity, Dr Tsang has established and maintained strong collaborative working relationships with students, faculty, staff, administrators, professional bodies and the media. Externally, he has served as an executive committee member for a number of key professional bodies and government departments in the HKSAR, China.
He has been awarded $8 million in teaching and research grants from the Hong Kong government and Johnson & Johnson Medical Services.
Dr Tsang has been editor for three refereed international teaching and learning journals (Int'l Journal of Learning and Innovation, Interactive Technology and Smart Education, Int'l Journal of e-finance) and has served as an editorial member on a number of other international journals (including Int'l Journal of Mobile Communications and Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence). He has authored five ICT education monographs, and edited six ICT education monographs.
The former Queensland student recently published the seminal Health and ICT monograph Intelligent Technologies for Bridging the Grey Digital Divide with Queensland academics and researchers. He has also edited Social Media Tools and Platform for Education with researchers from Stanford University and the Hybrid Learning proceedings from a major conference in China.