Dr. Roy Kin-Hon HO

Assistant Professor

E-mail:  khho@hksyu.edu
Telephone:    +(852) 2804 8501
Office: RHB 402
Academic Qualifications
  • PhD in Computer Network Management, University of Surrey, UK
  • MSc in Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Hong Kong Baptist University (expected completion 2024)
  • MSc in Business Analytics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
  • MSc (Eng) in Data Communications, University of Sheffield, UK
  • PGDip in Entrepreneurship, University of Cambridge, UK
  • BSc (Hons) in Computer Studies, City University of Hong Kong
Courses Taught
  • BUS 307 Management Information Systems
  • BUS 483 Digital Entrepreneurship
  • BUS 385 Internet of Things
Awards and Recognitions
  • Senior Member, IEEE
  • Teaching Excellence Award (2022), School of Decision Sciences, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
  • IS BBA Teaching Excellence Award (2019), Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong 
  • Runner Up Best Paper, IFIP Networking Conference 2008
  • Best Paper Award, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) 2006
Selected Publications

Referred Journal Papers:

  1. Kin-Hon Ho, Monica Law, Yun Hou and Tse-Tin Chan, "Spillover analysis on NFTs, NFT-affiliated tokens and NFT submarkets," Finance Research Letters, Vol. 60, 2024, 104598.
  2. Quanjia Ren, Tse-Tin Chan, Haoyuan Pan, Kin-Hon Ho and Zhihua Du, “Information Freshness and Energy Harvesting Tradeoff in Network-Coded Broadcasting,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letter, vol. 11, no. 10, 2022, pp. 2061-2065.
  3. Ning Wang, Kin-Hon Ho and George Pavlou, “AMPLE: An Adaptive Traffic Engineering System Based on Virtual Routing Topologies,” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 50, No. 3, March 2012, pp. 185-191.
  4. Ning Wang, Christos Michael and Kin-Hon Ho, “Disruption-Free Green Traffic Engineering with NotVia Fast Reroute,” IEEE Communication Letters, Vol. 15, No. 10, October 2011, pp. 1123-1125.
  5. Mina Amin, Kin-Hon Ho, George Pavlou and Michael Howarth, “A Closed-Loop Control Traffic Engineering System for the Dynamic Load Balancing of Inter-AS Traffic,” Journal of Network and Systems Management, Springer, Vol. 17, No. 4, December 2009.
  6. Kin-Hon Ho, George Pavlou and Michael Howarth and Ning Wang, “Joint Optimization of Intra- and Inter-Autonomous System Traffic Engineering,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2009.
  7. Stylianos Georgoulas, Panos Trimintzios, George Pavlou and Kin-Hon Ho, “An Integrated Bandwidth Allocation and Admission Control Framework for the Support of Heterogeneous Real-time Traffic in Class-based IP Networks,” Computer Communications, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2008, pp. 129-152.
  8. Ning Wang, Kin-Hon Ho, George Pavlou and Michael Howarth, “An Overview of Routing Optimization for Internet Traffic Engineering,” IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2008.
  9. Kin Hon Ho, Michael Howarth, Ning Wang, George Pavlou and Stylianos Georgoulas, “Inter-Autonomous System Provisioning for End-to-End Bandwidth Guarantees,” Computer Communications, Vol. 30, No. 18, 2007, pp. 3757-3777.


Referred Conference Papers::

  1. Kin-Hon Ho, Yun Hou, Chun Fai Carlin Chu, Chi-Kong Chan, Haoyuan Pan and Tse-Tin Chan, “Work-in-Progress: An AI-Assisted Metaverse for Computer Science Education,” IEEE World Engineering Education Conference (EDUNINE) 2023.
  2. Kin-Hon Ho, Yun Hou, Tse-Tin Chan and Haoyuan Pan, “Analysis of Non-Fungible Token Pricing Factors with Machine Learning,” IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) 2022.
  3. Kin-Hon Ho, Tse-Tin Chan, Haoyuan Pan and Chin Li, “Do Candlestick Patterns Work in Cryptocurrency Trading?,” IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) 2021.
  4. Kin-Hon Ho, Wai-Han Chiu and Chin Li, “A Network Analysis of the Cryptocurrency Market,” IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics (CIFEr) 2020.
  5. Kin-Hon Ho, Wai-Han Chiu and Chin Li, “A Short-Term Cryptocurrency Price Movement Prediction Using Centrality Measures,” IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Workshop on Deep Data Intelligence for Finance (DDIF) 2020.
  6. Ning Wang, Gao Yu and Kin-Hon Ho, “Fast Routing Failure Recovery with Multiple BGP Routing Planes,” IEEE GLOBECOM 2009.
  7. Ning Wang, Kin-Hon Ho and George Pavlou, “Adaptive Multi-topology IGP Based Traffic Engineering with Near-optimal Network Performance,” IFIP Networking Conference 2008.
  8. Mina Amin, Kin-Hon Ho, Ning Wang, Michael Howarth and George Pavlou, “Making IP Traffic Engineering Robust to Intra- and Inter-AS Transient Link Failures,” IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 2008.
  9. Mina Amin, Kin-Hon Ho, Michael Howarth and George Pavlou, “An Integrated Network Management Framework for Inter-domain Outbound Traffic Engineering,” IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) 2006.
  10. Kin-Hon Ho, Stylianos Georgoulas, Mina Amin and George Pavlou, “A Robustness Approach to Inter-domain Outbound Traffic Engineering,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2006.
  11. Kin-Hon Ho, Stylianos Georgoulas, Mina Amin and George Pavlou, “Managing Traffic Demand Uncertainty in Replica Server Placement with Robust Optimization,” IFIP Networking Conference 2006.
  12. Mina Amin, Kin-Hon Ho, Michael Howarth and George Pavlou, “Making Outbound Route Selection Robust to Egress Point Failure,” IFIP Networking Conference 2006.
  13. Kin-Hon Ho, George Pavlou, Stylianos Georgoulas and Mina Amin, “A Route Deflection Approach to Minimize Routing Disruption for Inter-domain Traffic Engineering,”, Poster, IEEE INFOCOM 2006.
  14. Kin-Hon Ho, Michael Howarth, Ning Wang, George Pavlou and Stylianos Georgoulas, “Joint Optimization of Intra- and Inter-Autonomous Systems Traffic Engineering,” IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 2006.
  15. Kin-Hon Ho, Ning Wang, Panos Trimintzios and George Pavlou, “Multi-objective Egress Router Selection Policies for Inter-domain Traffic with Bandwidth Guarantees,” IFIP Networking Conference 2004.
Grants:
  1. Co-Investigator (Co-I), “Electronic & Algo Trading with Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence”, Research Matching Grant Scheme (RMGS), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2022-2025.
  2. Principal Investigator (PI), “Intelligent Wireless Edge Networks: Theories and Applications”, Research Matching Grant Scheme (RMGS), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2022-2025.
  3. Team Member, “Investigation and Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence Models in Financial Investment Portfolio Selection Models", Research Matching Grant Scheme (RMGS), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2021-2024.
Research Interests
  • Computer networks
  • Social network analysis
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Non-fungible Token (NFT)