Pan Hui is a computer scientist at the University of Helsinki and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Currently, he is a Chair Professor of Computational Media and Arts (CMA), a Chair Professor of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas, Director of the Center for Metaverse and Computational Creativity, and also Director of the HKUST-DT Systems and Media Laboratory (SyMLab) at HKUST. He was elected as an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2020,[2] a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE),[3] a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE),[4] and a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).[5] He has been elected to the endowed professorship Nokia Chair in Data Science.[6]