Employment
Research Associate, Oct 2009-
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
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
B.Eng., Information Engineering, 2001-2004
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong


Research Visit
Decentralized Information Group, CSAIL, MIT
Web Science Exchange Programme, Sep-Nov 2008


Teaching Experience
Demonstrator, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Oct 2007-Jul 2008
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Aug 2004-Jul 2006


Awards and Honours
ACM Student Travel Grants (2009)
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 SIGWEB Student Travel Grant
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.
WWW 2008 Student Travel Grant
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.
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)
Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Award 2003
Accenture Scholarship Award 2003
Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarships, 2002
The Hong Kong SAR Outstanding Student Award, 2000


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