Director of HKU School of Innovation
Prof. Hayden K.-H. So received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998, 2000, and 2007, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor and previously the co-director of the computer engineering program at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong. He is also the co-director and founding member of the Joint Lab on Future Cities at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on highly efficient reconfigurable computing system designs and their applications. He has been awarded the CODES+ISSS Test-of-Time award, in 2021, the IEEE-HKN C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award, in 2021, the Croucher Innovation Award, in 2013, and the University Outstanding Teaching Award in 2012. He is an active member of the international reconfigurable computing community, having served as organizer and technical program chairs of many flagship international conferences in the field, including FCCM, FPL, FPT, ASAP, ARC, HEART, ReConFig, and HiPEAC. He was a cofounder of the International Workshop on Overlay Architecture for FPGA (OLAF) and is a frequent reviewer for journals including ACM TRETS, ACM TACO, IEEE TPDS, etc.