
Hayden Kwok-Hay So (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 1998, 2000, and 2007, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor and the Co-Director of the Computer Engineering Program, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. He is also the Co-Director and a Founding Member of the Joint Laboratory on Future Cities, The University of Hong Kong. His research interests include highly efficient reconfigurable computing system designs and their applications. He has been awarded the CODES+ISSS Test-of-Time Award, in 2021; the IEEE-HKN C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award, in 2021; the Croucher Innovation Award, in 2013; and the University Outstanding Teaching Award, in 2012. He is an active member of the international reconfigurable computing community, having served as organizer and technical program chair of many international conferences in the field.