Roland Chin
Roland T. Chin | |
|---|---|
| 6th President and Vice-Chancellor of Hong Kong Baptist University | |
| Assumed office 1 September 2015 | |
| Chancellor | Leung Chun-ying Carrie Lam |
| Preceded by | Albert Chan |
| Provost | Clayton Mackenzie[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1952 (age 72–73).svg){kind=small} Macao |
| Residence |  Hong Kong |
| Alma mater |  University of Missouri |
Roland Chin Tai-hong, BBS, JP (Chinese: 錢大康; born 1952) is the current President of the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU).[2] Before that he was the Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Chair Professor of Computer Science of the University of Hong Kong, the first university established in the East Asia region controlled by the British Empire, from 2010 to 2015.[3]
After receiving the bachelor and PhD degrees specialising in Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1975 and 1979 respectively, Chin had spent two years in the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, of NASA.[3] He pursued a teaching career and commenced it at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, where he had stayed for about a decade and a half from 1981 to 1995.
Chin then served in Hong Kong and joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as the Chair Professor of Computer Science in his career at HKUST. With the course of time he started to undertake crucial role of the institution, getting to serve as Vice-President for Research and Development (2003-2006) and subsequently as Deputy President and Provost (2006-2010).
In May 2015 he accepted the appointment in HKBU and assumed the office later in September that year.[4]
References
- ^ "University Officers". Hong Kong Baptist University. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Message from President - HKBU". Hong Kong Baptist University 香港浸會大學. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
- ^ a b "Professor Roland Chin Tai-hong" (PDF). Hong Kong Baptist University. May 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Professor Roland Chin appointed HKBU President and Vice-Chancellor". Hong Kong Baptist University 香港浸會大學. Retrieved 2018-04-02.