Lap-Kei Lee is an Assistant Professor at the School of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU). He obtained his BEng (with First Class Honours) in Computer Engineering and PhD (Computer Science) from the University of Hong Kong. Before joining HKMU, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI) at Germany, the Center for Massive Data Algorithmics (MADALGO) at Denmark, and the HKU-BGI Bioinformatics Algorithms and Core Technology Research Laboratory (BAL) at Hong Kong, respectively.