Professor Victor O.K. Li, BBS
Chair of Information Engineering & Head of Department of EEE
I believe the most important factor of success for our department is the people, i.e., teaching staff, students, support staff, and alumni. We also need to provide the best environment to enable them to be productive. During my tenure, the department has successfully recruited outstanding scholars, including both senior and junior colleagues. Such colleagues have been instrumental in our obtaining major research grants. We have also been successful at recruiting excellent PhD students, as demonstrated by the large number of HKPF awardees in the department. Our MSc programs have been very popular, and the number of students electing to join EEE as an undergraduate has been steadily improving in the last few years. We have also strengthened our connection with our alumni, and have organized home-coming events for several cohorts of EEE graduates. All this would not be possible without an excellent supporting staff, and on behalf of the department, I would like to take this opportunity to thank them. The department has also invested in modernizing the department seminar rooms and common areas, and many visitors and alumni have been favorably impressed by our modern facilities.
My goal is to serve the department the best way I can. In the next few years, we will continue to work on staff and student recruitment, updating our curriculum, and in modernizing our teaching and research facilities.
I strive to be an excellent researcher and teacher, and to provide service to the department, the University and the community. Over the years, I have learnt to multi-task and to be able to switch between tasks efficiently. As department head, sometimes you need to respond to unexpected demands on your time, and you need to be able to drop whatever you are doing and take care of such events. But then when you return to your previous task, you need to be able to pick up from where you left off immediately, because you don’t know when the next interruption will occur. I also delegate some of the responsibilities to other colleagues. I thank the very capable Deputy Heads and other members of the department who put in much time and effort to ensure the department functions smoothly. I work on Saturday as this is the only day I have an extended block of time to focus on research. Sundays I reserve for my family.