Pan Hui is a Chair Professor of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a Chair Professor of Computational Media and Arts and Director of the Center for Metaverse and Computational Creativity at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He received his PhD in Computer Science from University of Cambridge. He was elected as an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2020, a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) in 2019, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE) in 2018, and a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2016. He was also elected by Nokia Bell Labs to the endowed professorship Nokia Chair in Data Science at the University of Helsinki in 2017. He was a Distinguished Scientist at the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-labs), Germany, and a researcher at Intel Research Cambridge, UK and Thomson Research Paris, France. He has founded and chaired many IEEE/ACM conferences/workshops, and has served as track chair, senior program committee member, organising committee member, and program committee member of numerous top computer science conferences. He is also a founding member of the INTERPOL Expert Group on Metaverse in making the Metaverse safe and secure.