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Teachers
Prof. Christophe Coupé​
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Programme Director
Associate Professor
Course Coordinator of HUDT3002
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Outstanding Teaching Award, 2021
Prof. Christophe Coupé received a PhD degree in cognitive science in 2003 from the University of Lyon 2. He then worked as a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), until joining HKU in 2018.
​Prof. Peter J Cobb
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Deputy Director
Associate Professor
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Research Output Prize, 2024-25
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Early Career Teaching Award, 2021
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Faculty of Education Early Career Teaching Award, 2021
Prof. Peter J Cobb is an associate professor in the School of Humanities and a field archaeologist. Each summer, he helps lead excavations in Armenia together with the Armenian Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography.
Prof. Yuqi Chen
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Deputy Director
Assistant Professor
Course Coordinator of HUDT2206
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Prof. Yuqi Chen works at the intersection of Quantitative History, Digital Humanities, and AI for the Humanities. Her research integrates artificial intelligence and computational methods with humanities inquiry, aiming to uncover new insights through interdisciplinary approaches.
Prof. Javier Cha
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Assistant Professor
MPhil and PhD Coordinator for HDT
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Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards, 2024-25
Prof. Javier Cha is a digital historian and medievalist who uses technology to explore the East Asian world a millennium ago and also aims to prepare the historical profession for an era of data abundance and automation. His research spans the translation of primary sources in classical Chinese, machine-assisted historical methods, and experimental projects that address the challenges posed by big data and artificial intelligence in the humanities.
​Prof. Anya Adair
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Assistant Professor
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Rosie Young 90 Medal for Outstanding Young Woman Scholar, 2022
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Early Career Teaching Award, 2020
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Outstanding Teaching Award (Team), 2019
Prof. Anya Adair researches medieval English literature, as well as pre-modern English law and legal culture. Her research explores Old and Middle English law and literature, medieval language interaction, book history and manuscript studies, poetry and poetics, the history of the English language and the digital humanities.
Dr. Kal Ng
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Professional Practitioner
Course Coordinator of HUDT2100, HUDT2205 & HUDT3100
Dr. Kal Ng is a practitioner in Architectural Design, virtual reality research, film producing and scriptwriting.
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He is at present a lecturer of Intelligent Architecture and Virtual Reality at HKU and as programmer for the HDT Trajectory Workshops.
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Dr. Edwin Ko
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Lecturer
Course Coordinator of HUDT4001
Dr. Edwin Ko received a PhD degree in Linguistics in 2023 from the University of California, Berkeley. He then served as a Lecturer in the Linguistics Department at Yale University, later joining the University of Hong Kong in 2026 as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts.
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Mr. Zack Lu
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Assistant Lecturer
Course Coordinator of HUDT1001 and HUDT1002
Mr. Zack Lu is an Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts. His work focuses on AI literacy, digital humanities, and educational technology. In the Faculty, he teaches HUDT1001, HUDT1002, and AILT9001. As a member of the Arts Technology Lab, he supports teaching and research projects across the Faculty.
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