Professor KONG Siu Cheung
Research Chair Professor of E-Learning and Digital Competency, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology.
Director, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Competency Education Centre
香港教育大學
Professor KONG Siu-Cheung currently is Research Chair Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology (MIT); and Director of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Competency Education Centre (AIDCED), the Education University of Hong Kong. Prof. Kong is at present serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (RPTEL) and Journal of Computers in Education (JCE). He was in the President of the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) in 2014 and 2015; and is serving as the President of the Global Chinese Society for Computers in Education (GCSCE) from July 2023 to June 2025. Prof. Kong is on the list of Stanford Top 2% Scientist in Education from 2019 to 2022. He was the winner of 2019-2020 HKSAR University Grants Council Teaching Award (Team Award). He also won The Education University of Hong Kong President’s Awards for Outstanding Performance in Knowledge Transfer (Team Award) in 2020 and Outstanding Performance in Administration (Team Award) in 2021 and 2024. He was also the winner of National Teaching Award 2022 – Higher Education (Undergraduate) – Tier-Two Award – Team Award of the PRC. Currently, he is member of the 7th Academic Committee of China Association for Educational Technology (CAET). Prof. Kong is leading an international project on promoting computational thinking development and coding education for nine years starting from 2016. He is also leading a three-phase project on Artificial Intelligence Literacy education for school teachers, senior secondary students, university students, and administrative staff in Hong Kong from 2020 to 2025. His current research interests include AI literacy education, metaverse literacy education, computational thinking education, STEM education, quantum literacy education, mathematics education, pedagogy in digital classroom, teacher development, and policy in digital education.
