The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University is committed to quality, leading-edge education and research. It has 26 full-time faculty members (2 IEEE Fellows and 2 IEEE Senior Members), 12 supporting staff, approximately 200 undergraduate students, around 200 MSc students, and around 50 research students and project staff.

The Department offers BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, BSc (Hons) in Computing and Information Systems, BSc (Hons) in Computing Studies (Information Systems), MSc in Advanced Information Systems, MSc in Information Technology Management, MPhil, and PhD degrees. Our BSc programmes are very competitive and benchmarked with the IEEE and ACM recommended curricula. The programmes develop in students a solid foundation in computer science and information systems, while providing them with ample hands-on experience in problem solving and systems development in the class, and through group projects as well as our unique individual/independent final year projects.

With the dedication of our faculty members, all students have been able to enjoy a highly rich, stimulating learning environment for their academic, professional, and whole-person development. Complementary to the standard teaching curricula, the Department provides Internship Programme, Elite Programme, Academic Counselling, Short/Summer Programmes, Mentoring Programme, and Summer Volunteer Programme, in parallel with university or external programmes, such as Exchange Programme, and Metropolitan Attachment Programme. As a result, our graduates are well sought after by the industries as well as by the local and overseas postgraduate schools. In the past, our fresh graduates are able to quickly enter a job market, serving as analyst programmer, systems analyst, systems designer, systems developer, systems administrator, network engineer, technical specialist, business analyst, technical marketing and sales staff, and IT teacher/coordinator in secondary and primary schools, to name a few.

The Department has a very active, fast-growing research programme, and has achieved research excellence as well as international reputations in certain research fields. Our current research focuses on: autonomy oriented computing, computer vision, computer-based learning, cybernetics, database, data mining, e-technologies, health informatics, human computer interaction, image processing, information security, information systems, intelligent systems, Internet, machine learning, mobile computing, multi-agent systems, networking and multimedia, optical networks, parallel and distributed computing, pattern recognition, robotics, routing and switching, sensor networks, signal processing, symbolic computing, systems engineering, wavelet applications, web intelligence, and wireless networks.

Apart from creating and disseminating knowledge through scholarly publications (e.g. IEEE Transactions and other leading international journals, research monographs and books by international publishers), our faculty members are also very active in editorial and scholarly activities (e.g. as editors-in-chief or associate editors for international journals, and key members in the national 973 projects) as well as in organizing international conferences (e.g. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), and International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)).

Over the years, the Department has successfully established strong links with the industries and the society at large, through numerous consultancy projects (e.g. Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) project) and professional services (e.g. as chairmen or founding/executive members of the IEEE Society Chapters and Technical Committees, as well as other international organizations).

The Department has established two university research centres, namely the Centre for Health Informatics (CHI) and the Research Centre for Ubiquitous Computing (RCUC). CHI focuses on scientific research and application developments in the context of Advanced Health informatics. RCUC focuses on the research areas like location-aware computing, mobile data mangement, RFID/sensor networks, middleware, and embedded systems software development. CHI and RCUC were established in 2004 and 2005 respectively via group research funding from the Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC) Central Allocation, with faculty participations from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).

The Department operates several laboratories for research and teaching, and provides a wide range of software and hardware facilities: