Employment
Research Associate, Oct 2009-
NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan
NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan
Education
Ph.D., Electronics and Computer Science, 2006-2009
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Supervisors: Prof. Nigel Shadbolt, Dr. Nicholas Gibbins
Thesis Title: From User Behaviours to Collective Semantics
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Supervisors: Prof. Nigel Shadbolt, Dr. Nicholas Gibbins
Thesis Title: From User Behaviours to Collective Semantics
M.Phil., Computer Science and Engineering, 2004-2006
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Supervisor: Prof. Ho-fung Leung
Thesis Title: A Formal Model of Fuzzy Ontology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Supervisor: Prof. Ho-fung Leung
Thesis Title: A Formal Model of Fuzzy Ontology
B.Eng., Information Engineering, 2001-2004
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Research Visit
Decentralized Information Group, CSAIL, MIT
Web Science Exchange Programme, Sep-Nov 2008
Web Science Exchange Programme, Sep-Nov 2008
Teaching Experience
Demonstrator, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Oct 2007-Jul 2008
Oct 2007-Jul 2008
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Aug 2004-Jul 2006
Aug 2004-Jul 2006
Awards and Honours
ACM Student Travel Grants (2009)
For attending ACM Hypertext'09 and ACM SIGIR'09
For attending ACM Hypertext'09 and ACM SIGIR'09
Third Prize, ACM Student Research Competition
ACM SRC at the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 29 June - 1 July, 2009, Turin, Italy.
ACM SRC at the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 29 June - 1 July, 2009, Turin, Italy.
ACM SIGWEB Student Travel Grant
For attending ACM Hypertext'09, and participating in the Student Research Competition
For attending ACM Hypertext'09, and participating in the Student Research Competition
Web Science Exchange Scholarship
Awarded by the Web Science Research Initiative (Web Science Trust), 2008. For attending the Summer Doctoral Programme at the Oxford Internet Institute, and visiting CSAIL, MIT in Fall 2008.
Awarded by the Web Science Research Initiative (Web Science Trust), 2008. For attending the Summer Doctoral Programme at the Oxford Internet Institute, and visiting CSAIL, MIT in Fall 2008.
WWW 2008 Student Travel Grant
For attending WWW'08, 21-25 April, Beijing, China.
For attending WWW'08, 21-25 April, Beijing, China.
The R C Lee Centenary Scholarship
Awarded by The Drs Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Charitable Foundation, Hong Kong, 2006-2009. Full scholarship for pursuing a PhD degree at the University of Southampton.
Awarded by The Drs Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Charitable Foundation, Hong Kong, 2006-2009. Full scholarship for pursuing a PhD degree at the University of Southampton.
Cheng Ming Award
Awarded by New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. Highest honour bestowed on undergraduate students of New Asia College.
Citation (Chinese)
Awarded by New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. Highest honour bestowed on undergraduate students of New Asia College.
Citation (Chinese)
Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Award 2003
Accenture Scholarship Award 2003
Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarships, 2002
The Hong Kong SAR Outstanding Student Award, 2000
Professional Activities
- Programme Committee Member
- Forth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2011), 9-12 February, 2011, Hong Kong.
- International Workshop on Topic Feature Discovery and Opinion Mining (TFDOM 2010), ICDM'10, 13 December, 2010, Sydney, Australia.
- HICSS 2011 MiniTrack: "Web Information Credibility Analysis", 4-7 January 2011, Kawai, Hawaii, USA
- The 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Aug 31 - 3 Sep, 2010, Toronto, Canada.
- WI–IAT 2010 Workshop on Web Personalization and Recommender Systems (WebPRES 2010), Aug 31 - 3 Sep, 2010, Toronto, Canada.
- The 1st International Workshop on Adaptation, Personalization and REcommendation in the Social-semantic Web (APRESW 2010) ESWC 2010, 31 May, 2010, Heraklion, Greece.
- The 4th Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2010), WWW 2010, 26-30 April, 2010, Raleigh, USA.
- The 2nd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks, WI+IAT 2008, 9-12 December 2008, Sydney, Australia.
- Reviewer
- Knowledge and Information Systems
- IEEE Intelligent Systems
- 2010 International Conference on User Interfaces (IUI 2010)
- The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008)
- The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC 2008)
- The 10th IEEE on International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops 2006
- The 9th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2006)
- The 8th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC 2006) and the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE 2006)
- The 8th Pacific Rim International Workshop on Multi-Agents (PRIMA 2005)
- The 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2005)
- Activities
- Panelist, Workshop on Search in Social Media, co-located with ACM SIGIR 2009, 19-23 July, 2009, Boston, MA, USA.
- Presentation at the ACM Student Research Competition, the 20th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, 29 June – 1 July, 2009, Turin, Italy.
- The 2008 Summer Doctoral Programme, organized by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), 13-26 July 2008.