Our Faculty Members

Our multicultural faculty with adjunct and affiliate professors is composed of more than 50?members. They are multinational and represent most of the?denominational and non-denominational churches in Protestant traditions.

Biographical Information?

Dr. Kelvin Chong C.M. has many years of experience in electronic and electrical engineering as well as the information technology industry. Previously, he represented Malaysia in the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA). He is a Malaysian-born Chinese, who later moved to Australia, where he established his family and career, and was subsequently called to pursue PhD studies in Hong Kong. His main research areas include Byzantine patristics, technology ethics, and theology of technology. Before serving at SBC, Dr. Chong was a visiting lecturer at two universities in Hong Kong.

  • Systematic Theology
  • Religion and Science: a preliminary analysis on AI
  • AI and a theology of the body
  • Business ethics: moral grandstanding and the demise of an Unicorn
  • Christian Ethics (focus on moral reasoning and hermeneutics)
  • AI and Christian Faith
  • History of Christian Doctrines
  • Patristics, Byzantine Theology (specializes in Maximus the Confessor), Ascetical theology
  • The ethics of technology (AI ethics, AI algorithm and framework design)
  • The theology of technology (AI agency, Transhumanism)
  • Chong C. M. “Can an AI agent imagine and thus theologising?” Paper presented at Ian Ramsey’s conference on Posthumanism and Transhumanism, Oxford University, 2018.
  • Chong C. M. “Mathematic model for religious experience: an alternative to essentialism and constructivism.” Paper presented at Hong Kong Koinoinia of Theologians, Hong Kong, 2018.
  • Chong C. M. “Social and Ethical Implication of AI through the lens of Maximus the Confessor.” Paper presented at the conference on “Ethical and Social Implications of Artificial Intelligence: East-Asia and Beyond,” Hong Kong Baptist University, 30 March to 1 April 2023.
  • Chong C. M. “Maximus’ notion of Intelligence and virtue and its implication for the design of a Virtuous AI.” Paper presented at Symposium on Virtue and Happiness in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, FuDan University, Shang Hai, China, 15 September to 17 September 2023.
  • Lai P.C., Chong C.M., “Technology and Humanity in Chinese Christian Perspective: With Special References to Anthropocene and Transhumanism,” Brill Journal of Chinese Theology (Dec 2024)
  • ??Chong, Kelvin C.M., Tan Yen Kheng and Zhou Xin, “Impacts of Artificial Intelligence Development on Humanity and Social Values,” MDPI Information (18 September 2025)
  • Honorary Research Associate of the Faculty of Arts (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • PolyU Hong Kong – CBS Learning & Teaching Grant, (HK$160,000) – co-investigator
    Reimagine the use of generative AI for learning and teaching of Biomedical Sciences: Exploring the efficacy of Socratic method.
  • ECLAS, Durham University, UK (US$ 15,000) – principal investigator
    Virtue Ethic Based AI Framework (in collaboration with Nanyang Technological University)

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