Man-wai Mak
Professor And Interim Head at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolMan-wai Mak is a professor and interim head of Electronic and Information Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a research-rich career spanning machine learning, speaker recognition, and bioinformatics. He has led teaching and research in human-computer interaction, speech processing, distributed systems and software engineering, supervising Ph.D. students who have joined top labs and universities worldwide. Author of over 200 technical works and multiple books—most recently on speaker recognition—he blends deep theoretical expertise with practical biometric and bioinformatics applications. Mak has served on IEEE technical committees and editorial boards, and has chaired major conferences, reflecting a strong record of service and community leadership. Based in Hong Kong, he maintains an active academic lab that bridges signal processing and applied machine learning for real-world biometric and biological problems. An early adopter of interdisciplinary approaches, he often connects methods from protein localization and speaker recognition to advance cross-domain ML solutions.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at Northumbria University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
gmm9
detector6
android3
hadoop3
Github contributions (5)
enmwmak/msc-domain-adaptation
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:41 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
enmwmak/emotion_recognition
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:52 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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