{"id":1626,"date":"2021-09-03T16:12:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hkgp.org\/?post_type=board_of_directors&#038;p=1626"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:41:35","slug":"professor-yiu-siu-ming","status":"publish","type":"board_of_directors","link":"https:\/\/hkgp.org\/en\/board_of_directors\/professor-yiu-siu-ming\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor YIU Siu-ming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Yiu is currently a professor and the Master Programme Director of the School of Computing and Data Science at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). \u00a0He is also the Director of the School\u2019s FinTech and Blockchain Laboratory. \u00a0He was selected three times by Clarivate Analytics as one of the Highly Cited Researchers in the world in 2016, 2017 and 2019, and one of the top 1% researchers in HKU for 11 consecutive years (2011 \u2013 2021).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professor Yiu\u2019s research areas include bioinformatics, cybersecurity, privacy technology, and FinTech. \u00a0In the areas of bioinformatics, he served as the conference chair in Hong Kong for RECOMB 2017, one of the flagship conferences in the field and as the area programme chair for other prestigious bioinformatics conferences such as ISMB. \u00a0In addition to academic research, Professor Yiu has been a consultant to various companies in the areas of cybersecurity and data privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4752,"template":"","board_of_directors_cat":[53],"class_list":["post-1626","board_of_directors","type-board_of_directors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","board_of_directors_cat-board_nonofficial","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkgp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board_of_directors\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkgp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board_of_directors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkgp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/board_of_directors"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkgp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkgp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"board_of_directors_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkgp.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/board_of_directors_cat?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}