Career Paths after PhD

Speaker:	Prof. Lionel Ni
		Professor and Head
		Department of Computer Science
		Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Title:		"Career Paths after PhD"

Date:		Monday, 29 November 2004

Time:		4:00 -5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre F
		(Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST


Abstract:

Earning a PhD in computer science is certainly a major and congratulated
milestone in your life. It is also a turning point in your future career.
What should you do next? Not all of you can meet your wish.  The job
market changes all the time. Having produced over 30 PhD graduates and
worked in academic, industry, and government in last 24 years, I would
like to share with you possible career paths for computer science PhDs.



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Biography:

Lionel M. Ni earned his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer
engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 1980. He has
been professor and head of the Computer Science Department at the Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology since July 2002. Before that he
was professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department at Michigan
State University, where he started his academic career in 1981. He was a
co-founder of CC&T Technologies developing Internet-related products,
including the award winning Voice over IP hardware and Internet emulator
among other web-related software products. He was program director of the
U.S. National Science Foundation Microelectronic Systems Architecture
Program.