Profile

HAYDEN K.-H. SO (S’03–M’07–SM’15) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 1998, 2000, and 2007, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor and Co-director of the computer engineering program at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong. He is also the co-director and a founding member of the Joint Lab on Future Cities at HKU. His research focuses on highly efficient reconfigurable computing systems and their applications. He received the Croucher Innovation Award, in 2013, for his work in a power-efficient high-performance heterogeneous computing system, the University Outstanding Teaching Award (Team), in 2012, and the Faculty Best Teacher Award, in 2011. He has served as the Technical Program Chair for various international conferences, including the 2014 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, the 2014 International Symposium on Highly-Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies, and the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors. He also served as the Multiprocessor Systems and Networks on Chip Track Co-Chair for the International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs and a Guest Editor for the Journal of Signal Processing Systems.