Dr. Chung received his B.Engg. degree (First-Class Honours) in Computer Engineering from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 1995. He was an exchange student at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada from 1992-93 with the Cathay Pacific Visiting Student Award. He joined The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1996, and received his M.Phil. degree in Computer Science in 1998. He then joined the Medical Vision Laboratory (now Wolfson Medical Vision Laboratory), Robotics Research Group at the University of Oxford, U.K. as a doctoral research student in 1998, and graduated in 2001. Dr. Chung was a Croucher scholar (1998 – 2001) with the Croucher Foundation Scholarship. He was a visiting scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (now Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), U.S.A. (Sept 2001 – Feb 2002). He won the 2002 British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) Sullivan Thesis Award for the best doctoral thesis submitted to a United Kingdom university in the field of computer vision or natural vision.