Eugene Ch'ng

Artist, Blogger, Designer, Educator/Teacher, Engineer, Investor, Scientist, Technologist, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Professor Eugene Ch’ng is founding director of the NVIDIA Joint-Lab on Mixed Reality, an NVIDIA Technology Centre based at the University of Nottingham’s China campus. Professor Eugene Ch’ng graduated with a first-class honours in 3D Design and Manufacture for the Built Environment at De Montfort University UK, and have experience working across many disciplines. He graduated with a best PhD award from the Electronics, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Birmingham in 2007. He has served at the IBM Visual and Spatial Technology Centre and the Digital Humanities Hub as director of innovation at the University of Birmingham. Prof. Ch’ng has been invited twice to the Royal Society, presenting research at the Summer Science Exhibition, and was organiser and speaker at the Royal Society Theo Murphy Scientific meeting in 2017. He has also exhibited digital heritage research at the British Council SPARK Festival in Hong Kong, two British Science Festivals, at the Orkney International Science Festival, and for Darwin’s Bicentenary Exhibition at Shrewsbury. He has been featured in numerous international media such as National Geographic Television and Channel Four’s Time Team Special. Prof. Ch’ng is editor-in-chief for MIT Press’ PRESENCE: Virtual and Augmented Reality, and has served for many years in virtual and digital heritage conference technical and scientific programmes. Professor Eugene Ch'ng has published over 140 peer-reviewed papers and have been awarded research and industry support of £4m. He is PI and Co-I on numerous grants that develop digital technologies for cultural heritage and the creative cultural industry supported by UK, European and Chinese grants. He was one of the global consultants for the V&A’s ReACH programme (Reproduction of Art & Cultural Heritage), and participated in the review and redraft of Henry Cole’s 1867 Charter and the technical policy. Prof. Ch’ng was awarded the Ningbo Municipal Individual 3315 Talent award in 2015, and the Minjiang Scholar in 2022.

How to cultivate others' talents, and bring out the best in them!

Our consumption of information will transition from 2D digital screens into additional dimensions -- 3D and immersive media. Our culture will be transformed further when we are immersed in virtual and augmented reality spaces. Values that are encapsulated in the physical domain are likely to be transferred into the digital and virtual.

Art, Augmented Reality, Digital Culture, Digital Heritage, Mixed Reality, Social Media, Virtual Reality

TEDxNingbo 2017 - "The virtual past within future cities" TEDxXJTLU 2023 - "Is AI a tool or a medium?" (https://youtu.be/anezucvMOzo?si=vRko80u8g5nZlqe6)

Art - I express myself through algorithmic/procedural/generative art, and through traditional mediums such as oil painting, watercolours, soft and oil pastels, markers, pen and ink, pencil. I am also a 3rd Dan (Black Belt) Aikido instructor, and was chief instructor for 10 years at Ningbo Aikikai. During my spare time, I hack into codes, systems and servers.