Dr. Patrick C. K. Hung is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business and Information Technology in University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He is also a Guest Professor at Institute of Computer Science in University of Innsbruck, Austria. Also he is an Adjunct Professorat State Key Lab of Software Engineering in Wuhan University, China. Patrick has been working with Boeing Research and Technology at Seattle, USA on aviation services-related research projects.

Before that, Patrick was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong and a Research Scientist with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) at Canberra, Australia. He is a founding member of the IEEE International Conference of Web Services (ICWS) and IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC). He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) and International journal of Business Process and Integration Management (IJBPIM). From 2000 to 2003, Patrick has been served as a panelist of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA.

Patrick has Ph.D. and Master of Philosophy Science in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong, Master of Applied Science in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the University of New South Wales, Australia. On the other hand, Patrick has been studied at CLC Japanese Language Institute at Tokyo in Japan and he got Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4 Certificate of Japanese-Language Proficiency (Administered by the Japan Foundation and Association of International Education Japan). He has also been a visiting Ph.D. student at Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and RSA Laboratories West at San Mateo, California, USA.