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Patrick Hung

Patrick Hung
PhD

Professor

Information Security

Faculty of Business and Information Technology

Contact information

Business and Information Technology Building - Room 3026
North Oshawa
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5

905.721.8668 ext. 2835

patrick.hung@ontariotechu.ca


Research topics

  • smart toys
  • services computing
  • security and privacy
  • Social Robots
  • human-Robot Interactions (HRI)
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility
  • Healthcare Applications

Background

Patrick C. K. Hung is a Professor at Ontario Tech University, Faculty of Business and Information Technology, Canada. He is an adjunct Professor at the College of Health Sciences, VinUniversity, Vietnam. He is an Honourable Guest Professor at Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan and a São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

He was a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Aston University, England, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Abertay University, Scotland. He was also an Honorary International Chair Professor at the National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan. In addition, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Aizu, Japan. He was also a Visiting Faculty Member at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Guest Professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, the University of Trento and the University of Milan, Italy.

Hung collaborated with Boeing Research and Technology in Seattle on aviation services-related research, resulting in two US patents for the mobile network dynamic workflow system. Before that, he was a Research Scientist with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Dr. Hung was a Research Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Canberra, Australia. He also has prior industrial experience in e-business projects in North America and Hong Kong. He is a founding member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing and related conferences. From 2000 to 2004, he served as a panellist for the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States.

Education

  • PhD (Computer Science) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Master of Philosophy Science (Computer Science) Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Master of Applied Science (Management Sciences) University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) University of New South Wales, Australia

Research and expertise

Social Robots, Human-Robot Interactions (HRI), Privacy, Accessibility, Healthcare Applications