Michael Chiu-Lung Chau, Ph.D. Assistant Professor School of Business, Faculty of Business and Economics Room 729D, Meng Wah Complex The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road Hong Kong Phone: (852) 2859-1014 Fax: (852) 2858-5614 Email: mchau |at| business |dot| hku |dot| hk http://www.business.hku.hk/~mchau/

Biography

Michael Chau is currently an Assistant 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 was the program coordinator of the BBA(IS)/BEng(CS) program from 2006 to 2009 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

• Assistant Professor, School of Business, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong (2006-present).
• Coordinator, BBA(IS)/BEng(CS) Program, School of Business, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong (2006-2009).
• 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-present).
• 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).