Professor KONG, Siu Cheung (江紹祥教授)
Research Chair Professor of E-Learning and Digital Competency, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology; Director, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Competency Education Centre
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Professor Kong Siu-cheung is Research Chair Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology and Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Digital Competency Education Centre at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK).
Professor Kong serves as Editor-in-Chief of international journals Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning and Journal of Computers in Education. He was President of the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education from 2014 to 2015 and the Global Chinese Society for Computers in Education from July 2023 to June 2025.
Professor Kong has been named on the Stanford list of the world’s Top 2% Scientists in Education since 2019. His accolades include the 2019–2020 HKSAR University Grants Council Teaching Award (Team Award); the EdUHK President’s Awards for Outstanding Performance in Knowledge Transfer (Team Award) in 2020 and for Outstanding Performance in Administration (Team Award) in 2021 and 2024; and the National Teaching Achievement Award 2022 (Higher Education – Undergraduate, Tier-Two Team Award) of the People’s Republic of China. Currently, he is a member of the 7th Academic Committee of the China Association for Educational Technology and the National Expert Committee on Science Education for Primary and Secondary Schools.
Since 2016, Professor Kong has been leading an international project to promote coding education and the development of computational thinking. He is also leading several projects running from 2020 to 2028 on AI in education and AI literacy for a wide range of participants in Hong Kong and France, including primary and secondary school pupils, university students, teachers, parents, and administrative staff in the workplace.
At EdUHK, he is the programme leader for the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence for Executive Professionals and the five-week Certificate in Professional Development on Artificial Intelligence in Primary Education. His research interests include AI in education; AI and metaverse literacy; computational thinking, STEM, and mathematics education; pedagogy in digital classrooms; teacher development; and policy in digital education.