Professor Prudence Wong
Can you tell us about your role and career pathway?
I am a Professor in the Department of Computer Sciecne. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from The University of Hong Kong in 2003 under the supervision of Prof TW Lam and Dr HF Ting. I am a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Liverpool, associated with the Algorithm Group. Prior to joining UoL, I was a post-doctoral fellow in HKU.
Do you have an area of expertise / research?
My research interests are on the design and analysis of algorithms for optimization problems. I focus on designing on-line and approximation algorithms in various application areas, including job scheduling, bin packing, multimedia streaming, load balancing and network routing. I have also worked on optimization problems in other areas including computational biology and wireless communication algorithms.
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