Michael Chau, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Business Faculty of Business and Economics The University of Hong Kong Email: mchau |at| business |dot| hku |dot| hk http://www.business.hku.hk/~mchau/

Biography

Michael Chau is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Business at the University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona and a Bachelor degree in Computer Science (Information Systems) from the University of Hong Kong. He is the program coordinator of the BBA(IS)/BEng(CS) program (2006-2009, 2012-present) and has been the Warden of Lee Chi Hung Hall since 2009.

Research and Teaching Interests

• Knowledge Management
• Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries
• Data Mining/Text Mining/Web Mining
• Electronic Commerce
• AI/Expert Systems/Machine Learning
• Web Programming and Applications
• Security Informatics
• Intelligent Agents

Education

• Ph.D. in Management Information Systems (Minor: Linguistics), The University of Arizona.
  Dissertation: Searching and Mining the Web for Personalized and Specialized Information
  Dissertation advisor: Professor Hsinchun Chen
  
• B.Sc. in Computer Science and Information Systems (First Class Honors), The University of Hong Kong.

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, School of Business, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong (2012-present).
• Warden, Lee Chi Hung Hall, The University of Hong Kong (2009-present).
• Coordinator, BBA(IS)/BEng(CS) Program, School of Business, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong (2006-2009, 2012-present).
• Assistant Professor, School of Business, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong (2006-2012).
• Research Assistant Professor, School of Business, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong (2003-2006).
• Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2006)
• Research Scientist, Striker Capital Management Limited (2006-2007).
• Senior Technology Advisor, Timway Hong Kong Search Engine, (2005-present).
• Advisor, JiJiJa.com (2006-2008).
• Research Associate, Artificial Intelligence Lab (directed by Professor Hsinchun Chen), Department of Management Information Systems, The University of Arizona (1998-2003). Participated in various projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
• Teaching Associate, Department of Management Information Systems, The University of Arizona (1998-2002).
• Research Assistant, Internet Applications and Digital Library Group (directed by Professor Jerome Yen), Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong (1997-1998).
• Application Programmer, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Hong Kong (1997).

Teaching

• The University of Hong Kong
  • 2012-2013
    • BUSI 0052: Database Development and Management
    • BUSI 0063: Internet Applications and Security
    • MFIN 6002: Spreadsheet Modeling in Finance (Module 3A and Module 3B)
  • Past
    • MFIN 6002: Spreadsheet Modeling in Finance (Fall 2005, Module 2; Fall 2006, Module 1 and Module 2; Fall 2007, Module 1 and Module 2; Fall 2008, Module 1 and Module 2; Fall 2009, Module 1 and Module 2, Fall 2010, Module 3A and Module 3B, Fall 2011, Module 3A and Module 3B)
    • BUSI 0052: Database Development and Management (Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012)
    • BUSI 0088: Artificial Intelligence for Business Applications (Fall 2004, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012)
    • BUSI 0063: Internet Applications Development and Security (Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011)
    • BUSI 1003: Introduction to Management Information Systems (Spring 2012)
    • BUSI 0048: Business Applications Development (Fall 2005)
    • MFIN 6002: Computer Concepts, Programming and Applications (co-taught with Dr. Indranil Bose, Fall 2003)
• The University of Arizona
  • MIS 121: Introduction to Business Programming (Spring 2001)

Funded Projects

• Co-authorship Analysis in the Information Systems Discipline, HKU Small Project Funding, Jun 2013 - May 2015:
  • Principal Investigator of the project
  • Study the social networks of scholars in information systems through bibliometrics and co-authorship analysis
• Applying Blog Mining Techniques in Suicide Research and Prevention, General Research Fund, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2012 - 2014 (742012):
  • Principal Investigator of the project
  • Investigate the characteristics of bloggers in suicide-related online communities
  • Develop methods for suicide intention detection and analysis for blogs
  • Evaluate the performance of the proposed techniques for blogs in different languages in suicide detection
• Identifying and Understanding Influential Individuals in Online Social Networks, HKU Small Project Funding, Jun 2012 - May 2014:
  
  • Principal Investigator of the project
  • Devise methods to find the most influential individuals in consumer networks in social media
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of existing social network analysis techniques and to propose new techniques for marketing in online social networks
• E-engagement Capacity Enhancement for NGOs, Excellence and Capacity building for Entrepreneurship and Leadership for the Third Sector (ExCEL3), HKU-HKJC, Feb 2012 - Feb 2014:
  • Principal Investigator of the project (Co-I: C. Cheng, P. S. F. Yip)
  • Explore the needs and preferences of the users of NGO's websites and applications
  • Create a pedagogical workshop and training materials to empower local organisations to meet their online strategy goals
• Research on Key Techniques for Predicting Uncertain Trajectories of Moving Objects with Dynamic Environment Awareness, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Jan 2012 - Dec 2014 (61100045):
  • Co-Investigator (PI: S. Qiao)
  • Study the prediction of the trajectories of moving objects with uncertain trajectories by applying dynamic environment awareness
  • Study the applications of the proposed techniques in various domains such as intelligent transpotation systems and crime analysis.
• Dissecting Hacker Behaviors in Online Communities and the Threats that They Pose, General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, HKSAR Government, 2011 - 2013 (152611):
  • Co-Investigator of the project (PI: W. T. Yue)
  • Study the general phenomenon of hacker forums
  • Propose countermeasures firms should undertake to account for the risks posed by these online communities
• Predicting Online Auction Prices Based on Feedback Histories and Text Comments, HKU Small Project Funding, Mar 2011 - Feb 2013:
  
  • Principal Investigator of the project
  • Investigate the effect of feedback histories and text comments on final auction prices using data mining techniques and economic models.
  • Evaluate the model using real-world data collected from large auction sites like eBay.
• Understanding and Analyzing Online Public Opinion in Hong Kong Cyberspace, Central Policy Unit (Contract Research), HKSAR Government 2010-2011:
  • Co-Principal Investigator of the project (PI: K.W. Fu)
  • Design and implement a system for collecting and analyzing online public opinions in a systematic manner
  • Study the impact of online public opinions on policy formulation and public governance
• Promoting Mental Well-Being in Youths through an Interactive Online Game on a Social Networking Website, Health Care and Promotion Fund, Food and Health Bureau, HKSAR Government, Apr 2010 - Sept 2011 (23090514):
  • Principal Investigator of the project (Co-I: P. W. C. Wong and P. S. F. Yip)
  • Design and develop an online game for promoting mental health and study its effectiveness.
  • Investigate the issues related to the use of Web 2.0 media for mental health promotion.
• Exploring the Use of Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds for Teaching and Learning Activities, HKU Earmarked Teaching Development Grant, Nov 2009 - Apr 2011 (10100316):
  • Principal Investigator of the project (Co-I: M. Wang and A. Wong)
  • Explore the feasibility and performance of using 3D virtual worlds for teaching and learning at HKU.
  • Develop a prototype 3D environment in Second Life for teaching and learning activities.
• Support Self-Directed Learning in Interdisciplinary Studies by Developing a Knowledge Visualization and Navigation System, HKU Earmarked Teaching Development Grant, Nov 2009 - Oct 2011:
  • Co-Investigator of the project (PI: M. Wang)
  • Improve current e-learning management systems by supporting knowledge visualization and navigation functionalities.
  • Use a knowledge map to visualize the relationships among the knowledge nodes and the position of each node in the knowledge domain .
• Social Mining for Web 2.0 Applications, HKU Seed Funding for Basic Research, May 2009 - December 2011 (10400397):
  
  • Principal Investigator of the project.
  • Investigate the nature and characteristics of the social network in Web 2.0 sites and compare that with existing online social networks.
  • Develop a framework for the automatic identification, collection, and analysis of social networks in Web 2.0 sites.
  • Apply graph theory and social network analysis algorithms on these social networks to reveal interesting patterns.
• Applying Information Visualization Techniques to Web Search Results, HKU Seed Funding for Basic Research, March 2008 - February 2010 (10208140):
  
  • Principal Investigator of the project.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of different visualization techniques for displaying results from Web search engine
  • Study the user interface factors that influence the effectiveness and efficiency in Web information seeking
• Analysis and Visualization of Web Search Queries, HKU Seed Funding for Basic Research, January 2007 - December 2008 (10207565):
  
  • Principal Investigator of the project.
  • Study the information seeking behavior of Web users.
  • Perform analysis and data mining on Web search query logs.
  • Investigate the use of visualization techniques in helping users locate information on the Web.
• Searching and Analyzing Blogs for Competitive Advantages, HKU Seed Funding for Basic Research, January 2006 - December 2007 (10206775):
  
  • Principal Investigator of the project.
  • Study the weblogging (blogging) phenomenon and its business implications.
  • Evaluate the use of data mining and text mining techniques in analyzing blogs for market intelligence.
• Improving Document Clustering Techniques for Web Search Result Analysis, HKU Incentive Award, 2005 - 2006:
  
  • Principal Investigator of the project.
  • Study the incorporation of hyperlink information in Web page clustering.
  • Evaluate the performance of different clustering and visualization techniques on post-retrieval analysis of Web pages.
• Searching the World Wide Web Backwards for Business Intelligence Analysis, HKU Seed Funding for Basic Research, January 2005 - December 2006 (10206086):
  
  • Principal Investigator of the project.
  • Study the use of back-link (in-link) search and text mining techniques in performing business intelligence analysis on the World Wide Web.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of using back-link information in identifying implicit cyber-communities on the Web.
• Examining Organizations' Motivations, Strategies and Effectiveness of Information Systems/Technology Outsourcing: A Contingency Approach, HKU Seed Funding for Basic Research, January 2005 - December 2006:
  
  • Co-PI of the project.
  • Investigate the motivation and success/failure of IT outsourcing projects in organizations in Hong Kong.
• Using Content and Link Analysis in Developing Domain-specific Web Search Engines: A Machine Learning Approach, HKU Seed Funding for Basic Research, February 2004 - January 2006 (10205294):
  
  • Principal Investigator of the project.
  • Studied the use of content-based and hyperlink-based analysis in Web page filtering using various data mining techniques such as neural networks and support vector machines.
  • Designed and compared several algorithms to create Web portals for specific domains (e.g., medicine, nanotechnology, business intelligence).
• UMLS Enhanced Dynamic Agents to Manage Medical Knowledge, National Institutes of Health/National Library of Medicine, February 2001 - February 2004 (1 R01 LM06919-1A1):
  
  • Designed and implemented a medical search engine, and evaluated its usability and impact to the medical community.
  • Developed neural network algorithms for efficiently spidering and filtering medical Web pages and evaluated such approaches.
  • Applied natural language processing techniques to Web page indexing.
• COPLINK Center for Excellence: Information and Knowledge Management in Law Enforcement, NSF Digital Government Initiative, September 2000 - August 2003 (EIA-9983304):
  
  • Project leader and system architect for the COPLINK Agent System and the COPLINK Narrative Analysis and Visualization System.
  • Researched on applying machine learning and visualization techniques to improve information analysis and collaboration among users in the law enforcement domain.
  • Applied computational linguistics and machine learning techniques for entity-extraction in textual analysis for police narrative reports.
• NanoPort: Intelligent Web Searching for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, NSF/CTS/SGER, February 2002 - November 2002 (CTS-0204375):
  
  • Project leader and major investigator.
  • Researched on the different issues involved in building a Web portal for nanoscale science and engineering.
  • Designed and implemented the NanoPort system.
• High Performance Digital Library Classification Systems: From Information Retrieval to Knowledge Management, NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative Phase 2, May 1999 - April 2002 (IIS-9817473):
  
  • Designed and developed different variations of Internet spiders, including Competitive Intelligence Spider, Meta Spider, Cancer Spider, and Nano Spider. Designed and conducted user studies to evaluate the efficiency, effectiveness and usability of these tools.
  • Investigated the use of noun phrasing and self-organizing map techniques in helping users retrieve and analyze information on the Internet more efficiently.
  • Designed and implemented the Spiders"R"Us digital library toolkit which allows users to build personal digital libraries and search engines.
• An Intelligent CSCW Workbench: Analysis, Visualization, and Agents, NSF/CISE/CSS, June 1998 - June 2001 (IIS-9800696):
  
  • Project leader and chief system architect.
  • Designed and studied multi-agent based architectures for different applications, including collaborative filtering, competitive intelligence, medical information retrieval, e-commerce, and law enforcement.
  • Researched on different agent communication languages such as KQML.

Journal Publications (Refereed)

1. Chau, M., Wong, A. C. P., Wang, M., Lai, S., Chan, K. W. Y., Li, T. M. H., Chu, D., Chan, I. K. W., and Sung, W. K., "Using 3D Virtual Environments to Facilitate Students in Constructivist Learning," Decision Support Systems (DSS), accepted for publication, forthcoming.
2. Chen, X., Guo, C., Chau, M., and Zhou, W., "Characters Usage in Chinese Short Message Service (SMS): A Real-World Study in Mainland China," International Journal of Mobile Communications (IJMC), accepted for publication, forthcoming.
3. Li, T. M. H., Chau, M., Wong, P. W. C., Lai, E. S. Y., and Yip, P. S. F., "Evaluation of a Web-based Social Network Electronic Game in Enhancing Mental Health Literacy for Young People," Journal of Medical Internet Research, 15(5):e80.
4. Fu, K. W., Chan, C. H., and Chau, M., "Assessing Censorship on Microblogs in China: Discriminatory Keyword Analysis and the Real Name Registration Policy," IEEE Internet Computing, 17(3), pp. 42-50, 2013.
5. Fu, K. W. and Chau, M., "Reality Check for the Chinese Microblog Space: A Random Sampling Approach," PLOS ONE, 8(3):e58356, 2013.
6. Fang, X., Hu, P. J., Chau, M., Hu, H., Yang, Z., and O. R. L. Sheng, "A Data-Driven Approach to Measure Web Site Navigability," Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), 29(2), pp. 173-212, 2012.
7. Chau, M. and Xu, J., "Business Intelligence in Blogs: Understanding Consumer Interactions and Communities," MIS Quarterly (MISQ), 36(4), pp. 1189-1216, 2012.
8. Chau, M., "Visualizing Web Search Results Using Glyphs: Design and Evaluation of a Flower Metaphor," ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (ACM TMIS), 2(1), pp. 1-27, 2011.
9. Qiao, S., Li, T., Chau, M., Peng, J., Zhu, Y., and Li, H., "WebScore: An Effective Page Scoring Approach for Uncertain Web Social Networks," International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IJCIS), 4(5), pp. 1012-1021, 2011.
10. Zeng, D., Wei, D., Chau, M., and Wang, F., "Domain-Specific Chinese Word Segmentation Using Suffix Tree and Mutual Information," Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), 13(1), 115-125, 2011.
11. Ngai, W. K., Kao, B., Cheng, R., Chau, M., Lee, S. D., Cheung, D. W., Yip, K. Y., "Metric and Trigonometric Pruning for Clustering of Uncertain Data in 2D Geometric Space," Information Systems, 36, 476-497, 2011.
12. Qiao, S., Tang, C., Jin, H., Long, T., Dai, S., Ku, Y., and Chau, M., "PutMode: Prediction of Uncertain Trajectories in Moving Objects Databases," Applied Intelligence, 33, 370-386, 2010.
13. Chau, M., Wong, C. H., Zhou, Y., Qin, J., and Chen, H., "Evaluating the Use of Search Engine Development Tools in IT Education," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 61(2), 288-299, 2010.
14. Qiao, S., Tang, C., Jin, H., Dai, S., Chen, X., Chau, M., and Hu, J., "Processing Constrained K-Closest Pairs Queries in Crime Databases," Annals of Information Systems (AoIS), 9, 59-75, 2010.
15. Chau, M. and Wong, C. H., "Designing the User Interface and Functions of a Search Engine Development Tool," Decision Support Systems (DSS), 48(2), 369-382, 2010.
16. Chen, H., Li, X., Chau, M., Ho, Y. J. and Tseng, C., "Using Open Web APIs in Teaching Web Mining," IEEE Transactions on Education, 52(4), 482-490, 2009.
17. Chau, M., Xu, J., Cao, J., Lam, P., Shiu, B., "A Blog Mining Framework," IEEE IT Professional, 11(1), 36-41, 2009.
18. Chau, M., Lu, Y., Fang, X., and Yang, C. C., "Characteristics of Character Usage in Chinese Web Searching," Information Processing and Management (IP&M), 45, 115-130, 2009.
19. Chau, M., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Tseng, C., and Chen, H., "SpidersRUs: Creating Specialized Search Engines in Multiple Languages," Decision Support Systems (DSS), Special Issue on Multilingual Knowledge Management, 45(3), 621-640, 2008.
20. Roussinov, D. and Chau, M., "Combining Information Seeking Services into a Meta Supply Chain of Facts," Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), 9(3), 175-199, 2008.
21. Chau, M. and Chen, H., "A Machine Learning Approach to Web Page Filtering Using Content and Structure Analysis," Decision Support Systems (DSS), 44(2), 482-494, 2008.
22. Xu, J., Wang, G., Li, J., and Chau, M., "Complex Problem Solving: Identity Matching Based on Social Contextual Information," Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), 8(10), 525-545, 2007.
23. Fang, X., Sheng, O. R. L., and Chau, M., "ServiceFinder: A Method Towards Enhancing Service Portals," ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 25(4), 2007.
24. Chau, M., Fang, X., and Yang, C. C., "Web Searching in Chinese: A Study of a Search Engine in Hong Kong," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 58(7), 1044-1054, 2007.
25. Chau, M., Fang, X., and Sheng, O. R. L., "What Are People Searching on Government Web Sites?" Communications of the ACM (CACM), 50(4), 87-92, 2007.
26. Chau, M. and Chen, H., "Incorporating Web Analysis into Neural Networks: An Example in Hopfield Net Searching," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part C), 37(3), 352-358, 2007.
27. Schroeder, J., Xu, J., Chen, H., and Chau, M., "Automated Criminal Link Analysis Based on Domain Knowledge," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 58(6), 842-855, 2007.
28. Chau, M., Shiu, B., Chan, I., and Chen, H., "Redips: Backlink Search and Analysis on the Web for Business Intelligence Analysis," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 58(3), 351-365, 2007.
29. Chau, M. and Xu, J., "Mining Communities and Their Relationships in Blogs: A Study of Online Hate Groups," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), Special Issue on Information Security in the Knowledge Economy, 65(1), 57-70, 2007.
30. Chau, M. and Chan, I., "Refinery of an Internet-based Search Tool: Exploring Perceptions from Information Systems Practitioners," International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB), 4(5), 350-363, 2006.
31. Chau, M., Huang, Z., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., and Chen, H., "Building a Scientific Knowledge Web Portal: The NanoPort Experience," Decision Support Systems (DSS), 42(2), 1216-1238, 2006.
32. Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Chau, M., and Chen, H., "Multilingual Web Retrieval: An Experiment in English-Chinese Business Intelligence," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 57(5), 671-683, 2006.
33. Zhao, J. L., Bi, H. H., Chen, H., Zeng, D. D., Lin, C., and Chau, M., "Process-Driven Collaboration Support for Intra-Agency Crime Analysis," Decision Support Systems (DSS), 41(3), 616-633, 2006.
34. Chau, M., Fang, X., and Sheng, O. R. L., "Analysis of the Query Logs of a Web Site Search Engine," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 56(13), 1363-1376, 2005.
35. Xiang, Y., Chau, M., Atabakhsh, H., and Chen, H., "Visualizing Criminal Relationships: Comparison of a Hyperbolic Tree and a Hierarchical List," Decision Support Systems (DSS), 41(1), 69-83, 2005.
36. Lin, M., Chau, M., Cao, J., Nunamaker, J. F., "Automated Video Segmentation for Lecture Videos: A Linguistics-based Approach," International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI), 1(2), 27-45, 2005.
37. Chen, H. and Chau, M., "Web Mining: Machine Learning for Web Applications," Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 38, 289-329, 2004.
38. Chen, H., Chung, W., Xu. J., Wang, G., Qin, Y., and Chau, M., "Crime Data Mining: A General Framework and Some Examples," IEEE Computer, 37(4), 50-56, 2004.
39. Chau, M., Huang, Z., and Chen, H., "Teaching Key Topics in Computer Science and Information Systems through a Search Engine Project," ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), 3(3), 1-14, 2003.
40. Chen, H., Fan, H., Chau, M., and Zeng, D., "Testing a Cancer Meta Spider," International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS), 59(5), 755-776, 2003.
41. Chau, M. and Chen, H., "Comparison of Three Vertical Search Spiders," IEEE Computer, 36(5), 56-62, 2003.
42. Chen, H., Lally, A. M., Zhu, B., and Chau, M., "HelpfulMed: Intelligent Searching for Medical Information over the Internet," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Special Issue on Web Retrieval and Mining, 54(7), 683-694, 2003.
43. Chau, M., Zeng, D., Chen, H., Huang, M., and Hendriawan, D., "Design and Evaluation of a Multi-agent Collaborative Web Mining System," Decision Support Systems (DSS), Special Issue on Web Retrieval and Mining, 35(1), 167-183, 2003.
44. Chen, H., Chau, M., and Zeng, D., "CI Spider: A Tool for Competitive Intelligence on the Web," Decision Support Systems (DSS), 34(1), 1-17, 2002.
45. Chen, H., Fan, H., Chau, M., and Zeng, D., "MetaSpider: Meta-Searching and Categorization on the Web," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 52(13), 1134-1147, 2001.

Journal Publications (Non-refereed)

1. Chau, M., Ball, G., Huang, J., Chen, J., and Zhao, J. L., "Global IT and IT-Enabled Services", Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), 13(3), 115-125, 2011.
2. Chen, H., Chau, M., and Li, S. H., "Enterprise Risk and Security Management: Data, Text and Web Mining," Decision Support Systems (DSS), 50(4), 649-650, 2011.
3. Cheng, R., Chau, M., Garofalakis, M., and Yu, J. X., "Mining Large Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), 22(9), 1201-1202, 2010.
4. Chau, M., Zeng, D., and Tanniru, M., "Editorial: Special Issue on WEB 2006," Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB), 6(4), 317-319, 2008.
5. Cheung, Y. M. and Chau, M., "Hong Kong Chapter Report," IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 3(2), 18-20, 2008.
6. Chau, M. and Sugumaran, V., "Editorial: Special Issue on Advances in e-Business Research - Papers from the Fifth Workshop on Electronic Business (WEB 2006)," International Journal of Electronic Business (IJEB), 6(1), 1-3, 2008.
7. Chau, M., "Searching and Mining the Web for Personalized and Specialized Information," ACM SIGIR Forum, 39(1), 57, 2005.

Edited Books

1. Wang, G. A., Zheng, X., Chau, M., and Chen, H. Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2013, Springer (LNCS 8039), August 2013.
2. Chau, M., Wang, G. A., Yue, W. T., and Chen, H. Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2012, Springer (LNCS 7299), May 2012.
3. Chau, M., Wang, G. A., Zheng, X., Chen, H., Zeng, D., and Mao, W. Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2011, Springer (LNCS 6749), July 2011.
4. Chen, H., Chau, M., Li, S. H., Urs, S., Srinivasa, S., and Wang, G. A., Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2010, Springer (LNCS 6122), June 2010.
5. Chen, H., Yang, C. C., Chau, M., Li, S. H., Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2009, Springer (LNCS 5477), April 2009.
6. Yang, C. C., Chen, H., Chau, M., Chang, K., Lang, S. D.., Chen, P. S., Hsieh, R., Zeng, D., Wang F., Carley, K., Mao, W., and Zhan, J., Proceedings of the Intelligence and Security Informatics Workshops, PAISI, PACCF and SOCO 2008, Springer (LNCS 5075), June 2008.
7. Yang, C. C., Zeng, D., Chau, M., Chang, K., Yang, Q., Cheng, X., Wang, J., Wang, F., and Chen, H., Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2007, Springer (LNCS 4430), April 2007.
8. Tanniru, M., Liang, T. P., Shaw, M. J., Zeng, D., Chau, M., and Hwang, S. Y., Proceedings of the AIS SIG-eBiz Workshop on E-Business 2006, Westing Publishing, December 2006.
9. Chen, H., Wang, F., Yang, C. C., Zeng, D., Chau, M., and Chang, K., Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics 2006, Springer (LNCS 3917), April 2006.

Book Chapters

1. Li, T. M. H., Xu, J., and Chau, M., "Competition Within and Between Communities Within and Across Social Networks," in R. Alhajj and J. Rokne (Eds), Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer, forthcoming.
2. Chau, M., Lu, Y., Fang, X., and Yang, C. C., "Processing and Analysis of Search Query Logs in Chinese," in J. Jansen, A. Spink, and I. Taksa (Eds), Handbook of Web Log Analysis, Idea Group, October 2008, pp. 378-388.
3. Chau, M. and Xu, J., "Using Web Mining and Social Network Analysis to Study the Emergence of Cyber Communities in Blogs," in H. Chen, E. Reid, J. Sinai, A. Silke, and B. Ganor (Eds), Terrorism Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security, Springer, 2008, pp. 473-494.
4. Eggers, S., Huang, Z., Chen, H., Yan, L., Larson, C., Rashid, A., Chau, M., and Lin, C., "Mapping Medical Informatics Research," in H. Chen, S. Fuller, A. T. McCray, and W. Hersh (Eds), Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine, Springer, 2005, pp. 35-62.
5. Chau, M. and Chen, H. "Personalized and Focused Web Spiders," in N. Zhong, J. Liu, Y. Yao (Eds), Web Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, February 2003, pp. 197-217.
6. Hauck, R. V., Chau, M., and Chen, H. "COPLINK - Arming Law Enforcement with New Knowledge Management Technologies," in W. McIver and A. Elmagarmid (Eds), Advances in Digital Government: Technology, Human Factors, and Policy, Kluwer Academic Publishers, April 2002, pp. 163-179.

Conference Publications

1. Li, T. M. H., Ng, B. C. M., Chau, M., Wong, P. W. C., and Yip, P. S. F., "Collective Intelligence for Suicide Surveillance in Web Forums" in Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2013), Beijing, China, August 3-4, 2013.
2. Yue, W. T., Tsang, A., and Chau, M., "An Analysis of Post Contributions in the Hacker Community" in Proceedings of the Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2012), Orlando, Florida, USA, December 15, 2012.
3. Tsang, A., Zhang, X., Yue, W. T., and Chau, M., "Dissecting the Learning Behaviors in Hacker Forums" in Proceedings of the Workshop on Business Processes and Services (BPS 2012), Orlando, Florida, USA, December 15, 2012.
4. Li, T. M. H., Chau, M., Wong, P. W. C., and Yip, P. S. F., "A Hybrid System for Online Detection of Emotional Distress" in Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2012), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 29, 2012.
5. Lee, A. and Chau, M., "The Impact of Query Suggestion in E-Commerce Websites," in Proceedings of the Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2011), Shanghai, China, December 4, 2011.
6. Chau, M. "Friend Suggestion and Friend Browsing in Web 2.0 Applications," in Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010), Lima, Peru, August 12-15, 2010.
7. Chau, M., Lee, C. K., Chan, C. W., and Cheng, E., "Data Analysis for Healthcare: A Case Study in Blood Donation Center Analysis," in Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010), Lima, Peru, August 12-15, 2010.
8. Zhu, B. and Chau, M., "Understanding Awareness Diffusion in Microblogging," in Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2010), Lima, Peru, August 12-15, 2010.
9. Zhu, B., Luo, X., Ma., J., and Chau, M., "Finding Treasures from Your Trash," in Proceedings of the Joint Conference on eServices and Business Intelligence (JCeSBI 2010), Chengdu, China, June 4-6, 2010.
10. Park, T., Li, J., Zhao, H. and Chau, M., "Analyzing Writing Styles of Bloggers with Different Opinions," in Proceedings of the 19th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'09), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, December 14-15, 2009.
11. Cao, J., Knotts, T., Xu., J. and Chau, M., "Word of Mouth Marketing through Online Social Networks," in Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2009), San Francisco, California, USA, August 6-9, 2009.
12. Yang, B. and Chau, M., "Online Auction Price Prediction: A Bayesian Updating Framework Based on Feedback History," in Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2008), Paris, France, December 13, 2008.
13. Lu, Y., Chau, M., and Chau, P., "The Impacts of Trust on the Effectiveness of Search Engine Advertising," in Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2008), Paris, France, December 13, 2008.
14. Zeng, D., Wei, D., Chau, M. and Wang, F. Y., "Chinese Word Segmentation for Terrorism-related Contents," in Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2008), Taipei, Taiwan, June 17, 2008.
15. Chau, M. and Xu, J., "Studying Customer Groups from Blogs," in Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2007), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 9, 2007.
16. Chau, M., Chau, P. Y. K., and Hu, P. "Incorporating Hyperlink Analysis in Web Page Clustering," in Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2007), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 9, 2007.
17. Ngai, W. K., Kao, B., Chui, C. K., Cheng, R., Chau, M., and Yip, K. Y. "Efficient Clustering of Uncertain Data," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2006), Hong Kong, December 18-22, 2006.
18. Xu, J. and Chau, M. "The Social Identity of IS: Analyzing the Collaboration Network of the ICIS Conferences (1980-2005)," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2006), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, December 10-13, 2006.
19. Xu, J. and Chau, M. "Mining Communities of Bloggers: A Case Study on Cyber-hate," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2006), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, December 10-13, 2006.
20. Fang, X., Chau, M., Hu, P. J., Yang, Z., and Sheng, O. R. L., "Web Mining-Based Objective Metrics for Measuring Website Navigability," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2006), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, December 10-13, 2006.
21. Lu, Y. and Chau, M., "The Effects of Sponsored Links on Consumers' Information Processing Behavior in Comparison Shopping Engines," in Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2006), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, December 9, 2006.
22. Lu, Y. and Chau, M., Fang, X., and Yang, C. C., "Analysis of the Bilingual Queries in a Chinese Web Search Engine," in Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2006), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, December 9, 2006.
23. Chau, M. and Xu, J. "A Framework for Locating and Analyzing Hate Groups in Blogs," in Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2006), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 6-9, 2006, pp. 1528-1549. Awarded Best Conference Paper out of 302 submissions.
24. Lu, Y., Chau, M., and Fang, X. "Mining the Query Logs of a Chinese Web Search Engine for Character Usage Analysis," in Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2006), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 6-9, 2006, pp. 346-354.
25. Chau, M., Cheng, R., Kao, B., and Ng, J. "Uncertain Data Mining: An Example in Clustering Location Data," in Proceedings of the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006), Singapore, April 9-12, 2006, pp. 199-204.
26. Roussinov, D. and Chau, M., "Designing a Web Fact Seeking Engine for Business Intelligence: A Meta Approach," in Proceedings of the First Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2006), Claremont, California, USA, February 24-25, 2006, pp. 133-143.
27. Roussinov, D. and Chau, M., "Web Fact Seeking Meta Engine for Business Information Needs," in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'05), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 10-11, 2005.
28. Chau, M., Shiu, B., Chan, I., and Chen, H., "Automated Identification of Web Communities for Business Intelligence Analysis," in Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2005), Las Vegas, USA, December 10, 2005.
29. Chau, M., Cheng, R., and Kao, B., "Uncertain Data Mining: A New Research Direction," in Proceedings of the Workshop on the Sciences of the Artificial (WSA 2005), Hualien, Taiwan, December 7-8, 2005.
30. Chau, M. and Chan, I., "A Refinery of an Internet-Based Search Tool - Exploring Perceptions from Information Systems Practitioners," in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Electronic Business (ICEB 2005), Hong Kong, December 5-9, 2005.
31. Roussinov, D. and Chau, M., Filatova, E., Robles, J., "Building on Redundancy: Factoid Question Answering, Robust Retrieval and the 'Other'" in Proceedings of the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC 2005), November 15-18, 2005.
32. Chau, M., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Tseng, C., and Chen, H., "SpidersRUs: Automated Development of Vertical Search Engines in Different Domains and Languages," in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'05), Denver, Colorado, USA, June 7-11, 2005, pp. 110-111.
33. Chau, M. and Chen, H., "Using Content-based and Link-based Analysis in Building Vertical Search Engines," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL'04), Shanghai, China, December 13-17, 2004, pp. 515-518.
34. Chau, M., "Applying Web Analysis in Web Page Filtering," in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'04), Tucson, Arizona, USA, June 7-11, 2004, p. 376.
35. Qin, J., Zhou, Y., and Chau, M., "Building Domain-Specific Web Collections for Scientific Digital Libraries: A Meta-Search Enhanced Focused Crawling Method," in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'04), Tucson, Arizona, USA, June 7-11, 2004, pp. 135-141.
36. Zhou, Y., Qin, J., Chau, M., and Chen H., "Experiments on Chinese-English Cross-Language Retrieval at NTCIR-4," in Proceedings of the Fourth NTCIR Workshop Meeting (NTCIR-4), Tokyo, Japan, June 2-4, 2004.
37. Lin, M., Nunamaker, J. F., Chau, M., and Chen, H., "Segmentation of Lecture Videos Based on Text: A Method Combining Multiple Linguistic Features," in Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), Big Island, Hawaii, USA, January 5-8, 2004.
38. Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Chau, M., and Chen, H., "Supporting Multilingual Information Retrieval in Web Applications: An English-Chinese Web Portal Experiment," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2003), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 8-11, 2003.
39. Zeng, D., Chen, H., Daspit, D., Shan, F., Nandiraju, S., Chau, M., and Lin, C., "COPLINK Agent: An Architecture for Information Monitoring and Sharing in Law Enforcement," in Proceedings of the NSF/NIJ Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), Tucson, Arizona, USA, June 2-3, 2003, pp. 281-295.
40. Qin, J., Huang, Z., Zhou, Y., Chau, M., Tseng, C., Yip, A., Ng, T. G., Guo, F., Chen, Z. K., and Chen, H., "NanoPort: A Knowledge Portal for Nanoscale Science and Engineering," in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'03), Houston, Texas, USA, May 27-31, 2003, p. 387.
41. Chen, H., Chung, W., Qin, Y., Chau, M., Xu, J. J., Wang, G., Zheng, R., and Atabakhsh, H., "Crime Data Mining: An Overview and Case Studies," in Proceedings of the National Conference for Digital Government Research (dg.o 2003), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 18-21, 2003, pp. 45-48.
42. Chen, H., Atabakhsh, H., Petersen, T., Schroeder, J., Buetow, T., Chaboya, L., O'Toole, C., Chau, M., Cushna, T., Casey, D., and Huang, Z., "COPLINK Visualization for Crime Analysis," in Proceedings of the National Conference for Digital Government Research (dg.o 2003), Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 18-21, 2003, pp. 261-266.
43. Chau, M., Chen, H., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Qin, Y., Sung, W. K., and McDonald, D., "Comparison of Two Approaches to Building a Vertical Search Tool: A Case Study in the Nanotechnology Domain," in Proceedings of The Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'02), Portland, Oregon, USA, July 14-18, 2002, pp. 135-144.
44. Chau, M., Chen, H., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Sung, W. K., Chen, Y., Qin, Y., McDonald, D., Lally, A., and Landon, M., "NanoPort: A Web Portal for Nanoscale Science and Technology," in Proceedings of The Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'02), Portland, Oregon, USA, July 14-18, 2002, p. 373.
45. Chau, M., Xu, J. J., and Chen, H. "Extracting Meaningful Entities from Police Narrative Reports," in Proceedings of the National Conference for Digital Government Research (dg.o 2002), Los Angeles, California, USA, May 19-22, 2002, pp. 271-275.
46. Chau, M., Zeng, D., and Chen, H. "Personalized Spiders for Web Search and Analysis," in Proceedings of the First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'01), Roanoke, Virginia, USA, June 24-28, 2001, pp. 79-87.
47. Atabakhsh, H., Schroeder, J., Chen, H., Chau, M., Xu, J., Zhang, J., and Bi, H., "COPLINK Knowledge Management for Law Enforcement: Text Analysis, Visualization and Collaboration," in Proceedings of the National Conference for Digital Government Research (dg.o 2001), Los Angeles, California, USA, May 21-23, 2001.
48. Chau, M., Atabakhsh, H., Zeng, D., and Chen, H., "Building an Infrastructure for Law Enforcement Information Sharing and Collaboration: Design Issues and Challenges," in Proceedings of the National Conference for Digital Government Research (dg.o 2001), Los Angeles, California, USA, May 21-23, 2001.
49. Yen, J., Chung, A., Ho, H., Tam, B., Lau, R., Chau, M., and Hwang, K., "Collaborative and Scalable Financial Analysis with Multi-agent Technology," in Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-32), Maui, Hawaii, USA, January 5-8, 1999.

Conference Presentations (Abstracts)

1. Fu, K. W., Sam, C., and Chau, M., "Power of Retweeting During Mass Incidents in China," presented at Chinese Internet Research Conference (abstract), Washington D.C., USA, May 23-24, 2011.
2. Chau, M., Wang, M., Wong, A. C. P., and Lai, S., "Exploring the Use of Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds for Teaching and Learning Activities," presented at Enhancing Learning Experiences in Higher Education: International Conference (abstract), Hong Kong, December 2-3, 2010.
3. Lee, C. K., Chau, M., and Lin, C. K., "Addressing Service Demand in Blood Transfusion Service - Working at the Source Level," presented at the 31st International Conference of the ISBT (abstract), Berlin, Germany, June 26 - July 1, 2010.
4. Hung, A. T. F., Chau, M., and Lee, C. K., "Chinese Perception of Blood Donation Promotional Strategies," presented at the AABB Annual Meeting 2009 (abstract), New Orleans, USA, October 24-27, 2009.
5. Chau, M., "Blog Mining: Extracting Knowledge from Blogs," presented at the INFORMS International Conference (INFORMS 2006) (abstract), Hong Kong, June 25-28, 2006.
6. Chau, M. and Yen, B., "Lift Scheduling: A Machine Learning Approach," presented at the INFORMS International Conference (INFORMS 2006) (abstract), Hong Kong, June 25-28, 2006.
7. Chau, M., "Spidering and Filtering Web Pages for Vertical Search Engines," presented at the Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2002 Doctoral Consortium, Dallas, Texas, August 8-11, 2002.

Research Postgraduate Student Supervision

• Yan Lu (PhD 2010; first job at Singapore Institute of Management), Primary Supervisor
• Boye Yang (MPhil 2009; first job at government in China), Primary Supervisor
• Amanda Chu (PhD 2012), Thesis Examination Committee Member
• Charles Chow (PhD 2010), Thesis Examination Committee Member
• Alvin Leung (MPhil 2009), Thesis Examination Committee Member
• Xi Chen (PhD 2008), Thesis Examination Committee Member
• Desmond Fu (MSc(EComICom) 2005), Graduation Project Examiner
• Peter Phillips (PhD 2010, James Cook University), Thesis External Examiner
• Nguyen Hai Long (PhD 2013, Nanyang Technological University), Thesis External Examiner
• Hong Jia (PhD 2013, Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Thesis External Examiner
• Chunping Jiang (PhD 2013, City University of Hong Kong), Thesis External Examiner

• Current: Alice Lee, Tim Li, Chris Wong, Broderick Koo, Kristal Chan, Tim Jin, Anson Wong, Ben Ng, Stanley Pang, Kingsley Tam, Watery Choi, Ken Ho, Stephen Lee
• Past: Yan Lu (PhD 2010), Boye Yang (MPhil 2009), Yudi Lu, Ken Tse, Frances Law, Vincent Lau, Songnia Lai, Chi-Wai Chan, Joe Wong, Jim Tam, Tommy Li, Boby Shiu, Keith Tseung, Sally Poon, Ivan Ho, William Lau, Cynthia Wong, Porsche Lam, Louisa Lam, Sandy Lai, Raiz Wai, Jackey Ng, Kevin Lee, Raygen Lam, Jolly Cheng, Wing-Kai Cheng

• Invited Panelist, National Science Foundation (Information and Knowledge Management Program under IIS)
• Reviewer, Hong Kong Research Grants Council (General Research Fund)
• Chairman, IEEE Society (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter, 2009-2010
• Vice-Chairman, IEEE Society (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter, 2006-2008
• Publicity Chair, IEEE Society (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter (formerly Neural Networks Chapter), 2003-2005
• Invited Member of Program Validation Panels, HKU SPACE
• Senior Member, Association for Information Systems
• Senior Member, Association of Computing Machinery
• Senior Member, IEEE
• Member of the American Society for Information Science & Technology
• Organizing committee of the following conferences/workshops:
  • Program Co-chair, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013)
  • Track Co-chair (Design of Information Systems), Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2012)
  • Workshop Co-chair, Pacific-Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2012)
  • Review Co-ordinator and Track Co-chair (Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence), International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2011)
  • Track Co-chair (Enterprise Web Mining, Web Analytics, and Business Intelligence), Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2011)
  • Workshop Co-chair, Pacific-Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2011)
  • Registration Chair, ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011)
  • Special Sessions Chair, International Conference on Multimedia Networking and Security (MINES 2010)
  • Submission and Review Co-ordinator, Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2010)
  • Workshop Co-chair, Pacific-Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2010)
  • Review Co-ordinator and Track Co-chair (Web 2.0 and Social Media Analytics), International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2009)
  • Workshop Co-chair, Pacific-Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2009)
  • Publication Chair, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS 2008)
  • International Liaison, Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2008)
  • Program Co-chair, Pacific-Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2008)
  • Publication Chair, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS 2007)
  • International Liaison, Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2007)
  • Workshop Co-chair, Workshop on Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust (WSIPT 2007)
  • Program Co-chair, Pacific-Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2007)
  • Publication Co-chair, Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2006)
  • Publication Co-chair, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS 2006)
  • Program Co-chair, Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (WISI 2006)
• Best Paper Selection Committee of the following conferences/workshops:
  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2012)
  • ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2010)
  • Pacific-Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2006-2013)
• Program Committee of the following conferences/workshops:
  • Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2012, 2013)
  • Asia-Pacific E-government Workshop (APEGW 2006)
  • China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2008, 2009)
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2009, Associate Editor; ECIS 2010, Associate Editor)
  • European International Conference on Data Mining (ECDM 2007, 2008)
  • ICDE Workshop on Management and Mining of Uncertain Data (MOUND 2009)
  • ICDM Workshop on Data Mining of Uncertain Data (DUNE 2007)
  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
  • IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2007, 2008)
  • IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON 2006)
  • IEEE Symposium on Advanced Management of Information for Globalized Enterprises (AMIGE 2008)
  • Information Resources Management Association International Conference (IRMA 2006, 2007)
  • International Conference on Computation Intelligence and Security (CIS 2006)
  • International Conference on E-Business (ICEB2010)
  • International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2006; ICEC 2009, Track Co-chair, Web Mining, Virtual Communities, and Knowledge Sharing; ICEC 2011; ICEC 2013)
  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2008, Associate Editor, IS Security and Privacy track; 2010, Associate Editor, Human Behavior and Information Technology track)
  • International Conference on Service Systems and Services Management (ICSSSM 2008)
  • International Joint Conference on E-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2007, 2008)
  • International Workshop on Information Processing over Evolving Networks (WINPEN 2006)
  • Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010)
  • VLDB Workshop on Databases and Crowdsourcing (DBCrowd 2013)
  • Workshop on E-Business (WEB 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010)
  • Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2009)
  • Workshop on the Sciences of the Artificial (WSA 2005)
• Guest Editor of the following Journal Special Issues:
  • Special Issue on Business Intelligence Research (Guest Associate Editor), Chen, H., Chiang, R., and Storey, V., MIS Quarterly.
  • Special Issue on Enterprise Risk and Security Management: Data, Text and Web Mining, Chen, H., Chau, M., and Li, S., Decision Support Systems, 50(4), 2011.
  • Special Issue on Global IT and IT-Enabled Services, Zhao, J. L., Chen, J., Chau, M., Ball, G., and Huang, J., Information Systems Frontiers, 13(3), 2011.
  • Special Issue on Mining Large Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases, Cheng, R., Chau, M., Garofalakis, M., and Yu, J., IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 22(9), 2010.
  • Special Issue on Security Informatics, Yang, C. C., Chau, M., Wang, J., and Chen, H., Annals of Information Systems, 9, 2010.
  • Special Issue on WEB 2006, Chau, M., Zeng, D., and Tanniru, M., Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB), 6(4), 2008.
  • Special Issue on Advances in e-Business Research - Papers from the Fifth Workshop on Electronic Business, Chau, M. and Sugumaran, V., International Journal on Electronic Business, 6(1), 2008.
• Journal Editorial Services:
  • Associate Editor, Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (2008 - present)
  • Editorial Board Member, Security Informatics (2010 - present)
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Database Management (2009 - present)
  • Editorial Board Member, Case Studies in Business, Industry and Government Statistics (2008 - present)
  • Editorial Board Member, The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal (2007 - present)
• Reviewer for the following journals:
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Communications of the AIS
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
  • European Journal of Information Systems
  • IEEE Computer
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • IEEE Transactions on Engineering Maangement
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part A, Part B, and Part C)
  • Information and Management
  • Information Processing and Management
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Sciences
  • Information Systems Frontiers
  • Information Systems Research
  • Information Technology and Management
  • INFORMS Journal on Computing
  • International Information and Library Review
  • International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
  • International Journal of Computers and Their Applications
  • International Journal of Digital Libraries
  • International Journal of Electronic Business
  • International Journal of Electronic Commerce
  • International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making
  • International Journal of Management and Decision Making
  • International Journal of Modelling and Simulation
  • Journal of Database Management
  • Journal of Digital Libraries
  • Journal of Electronic Commerce Research
  • Journal of Management Information Systems
  • Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce
  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Journal of Zhejiang University - Science
  • Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Knowledge and Information Systems
  • MIS Quarterly
  • OMEGA
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
• Reviewer for the following conferences:
  • ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (2003)
  • Americas Conference on Information Systems (2003, 2004)
  • Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (2001, 2003)
  • China Digital Library Conference (2002)
  • European Conference on Digital Libraries (2002)
  • Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
  • IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (2001, 2006)
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (2003, 2006)
  • IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (2004, 2005, 2006)
  • IEEE International Conference on Information Technology Research and Education (2003)
  • IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (2004, 2005)
  • IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (2006)
  • International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (2000, 2001, 2002)
  • International Conference on Information Systems (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007)
  • International Conference on Web Services (2008)
  • Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2001, 2002, 2004)
  • Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (2011, 2013)
  • Workshop on E-Business (2005, 2006)
  • Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (2005)
  • Workshop of the Sciences of the Artificial (2005)

• Ranked as the 14th top author worldwide (1st in Asia) in research productivity in the discipline of information science in the period 1998-2007 out of 1,823 distinct researchers (Chua, A. & Yang, C. C., 2008, JASIST)
• Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award 2012, The University of Hong Kong
• PACIS Best Conference Paper 2006
• Papers cited over 2300 times with an H-index of 25 (Google Scholar)
• Media coverage of research (ATV, Ming Pao, AppleDaily, HKET, HKEJ, PC Market)
• AMCIS Doctoral Consortium
• Graduate In-state Tuition Scholarship, The University of Arizona
• Graduate Assistantship, The University of Arizona
• Graduate Tuition Waiver, The University of Arizona
• Dean Honors List, The University of Hong Kong
• Tung OOCL Scholarship
• Hong Kong University Foundation Scholarship
• Belilios Fund Scholarship

Computer Knowledge

• Programming Languages: Java, C, C++, Visual Basic, Pascal, Cobol, Prolog
• Computer Applications: MS Office, MS Visual Studio, Borland JBuilder, Adobe Photoshop
• Operating Systems: MS-DOS, MS Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP, Unix, Linux
• Database Systems: Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, Access
• Internet/Mobile Technologies: HTML, CGI, JavaScript, KQML, WML, Applet, Servlet, JSP, PHP, J2ME

Languages

• Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), English, some French and some Japanese