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Michael Chau, Ph.D.
School of Business
Faculty of Business and Economics
7/F Meng Wah Complex
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Phone: (852) 2859-1014
Fax: (852) 2858-5614
Email: mchau@business.hku.hk
URL: http://www.business.hku.hk/~mchau/
Last updated: November 23, 2005
• Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, The University of Arizona, May 2003.
Dissertation: Searching and Mining the Web for Personalized and Specialized Information
Dissertation advisor: Dr. Hsinchun Chen
Major committee members: Dr. Olivia R. Liu Sheng, Dr. Daniel D. Zeng
Minor committee members: Dr. D. Terence Langendoen, Dr. Simin Karimi
• B.Sc. in Computer Science and Information Systems (First Class Honors), The University of
Hong Kong, June 1998.
Professional Experience
• Research Assistant Professor, School of Business, Faculty of Business and Economics, The
University of Hong Kong (2003-present).
• Senior Technology Advisor, Timway Hong Kong Search Engine Ltd (2005-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).
• Programmer Intern, Target Online Financial Information Inc., Hong Kong (1996).
Teaching Experience
• The University of Hong Kong
o BUSI 0063: Internet Applications and Security (Spring 2006)
o BUSI 0048: Business Applications Development (Fall 2005)
o MFIN 6002: Spreadsheet Modeling in Finance (Fall 2005)
o BUSI 0063: Internet Applications Development (Spring 2004, Spring 2005)
o BUSI 0088: Artificial Intelligence for Business Applications (Fall 2004)
o MFIN 6002: Computer Concepts, Programming and Applications (co-taught with Dr.
Indranil Bose, Fall 2003)
• The University of Arizona

o MIS 121: Introduction to Business Programming (Spring 2001)
o MIS 121: Introduction to Business Programming (Spring 1999)
o MIS 301: Data Structures and Algorithms (Spring 2000)
o MIS 531A: Data Structures and Algorithms (Fall 1998, Fall 1999, Fall 2000, Fall 2001)
o MIS 580: Knowledge Management (Fall 1998, Fall 1999)
Funded Research Projects
• Improving Document Clustering Techniques for Web Search Result Analysis, HKU Incentive
Award, 2005 - 2006:
o Principal Investigator of the project.
o Study the incorporation of hyperlink information in Web page clustering.
o Evaluate the performance of different clustering and visualization techniques on postretrieval
analysis of Web pages.
• Searching the World Wide Web Backwards for Business Intelligence Analysis, HKU Seed
Funding for Basic Research, January 2005 - December 2006:
o Principal Investigator of the project.
o Study the use of back-link (in-link) search and text mining techniques in performing
business intelligence analysis on the World Wide Web.
o Evaluate the effectiveness of using back-link information in identifying implicit cybercommunities
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:
o Co-PI of the project.
o 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 - July 2005:
o Principal Investigator of the project.
o 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.
o 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):
o Designed and implemented a medical search engine, and evaluated its usability and
impact to the medical community.
o Developed neural network algorithms for efficiently spidering and filtering medical Web
pages and evaluated such approaches.
o Applied natural language processing techniques to Web page indexing.
• 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):
o 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.
o Investigated the use of noun phrasing and self-organizing map techniques in helping
users retrieve and analyze information on the Internet more efficiently.
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o Designed and implemented the SpidersRUs digital library toolkit which allows users to
build personal digital libraries and search engines.
• COPLINK Center for Excellence: Information and Knowledge Management in Law
Enforcement, NSF Digital Government Initiative, September 2000 - August 2003 (EIA-
9983304):
o Project leader and system architect for COPLINK Collaboration System and COPLINK
Narrative Analysis and Visualization.
o Researched on applying machine learning and visualization techniques to improve
information analysis and collaboration among users in the law enforcement domain.
o 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):
o Project leader and major researcher.
o Researched on the different issues involved in building a Web portal for nanoscale
science and engineering.
o Designed and implemented the NanoPort system.
• An Intelligent CSCW Workbench: Analysis, Visualization, and Agents, NSF/CISE/CSS, June
1998 - June 2001 (IIS-9800696):
o Project leader and chief system architect.
o Designed and studied multi-agent based architectures for different applications, including
collaborative filtering, competitive intelligence, medical information retrieval, ecommerce,
and law enforcement.
o Researched on different agent communication languages, such as KQML.
Journal Publications
1. Chau, M., Huang, Z., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., and Chen, H., "Building a Scientific Knowledge Web
Portal: The NanoPort Experience," Decision Support Systems, accepted for publication,
forthcoming.
2. Chau, M., Fang, X., and Sheng, O. R. L., “What Are People Searching on Government Web
Sites?” Communications of the ACM (CACM), accepted for publication, forthcoming.
3. 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), accepted for publication, forthcoming.
4. Chau, M., Fang, X., and Sheng, O. R. L., “Analysis of the Query Logs of a Website Search
Engine,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST),
accepted for publication, forthcoming.
5. 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),
accepted for publication, forthcoming.
6. 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),
accepted for publication, forthcoming.
7. Chau, M., “Searching and Mining the Web for Personalized and Specialized Information,” ACM
SIGIR Forum, 39(1), 57.
8. 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.
9. Chen, H. and Chau, M., “Web Mining: Machine Learning for Web Applications,” Annual
Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 38, 289-329, 2004.
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10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Chau, M. and Chen, H., “Comparison of Three Vertical Search Spiders,” IEEE Computer, 36(5),
56-62, 2003.
14. 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), 54(7), 683-694, 2003.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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 Papers Under Review/Revision
1. Chau, M. and Chen, H., "Incorporating Web Analysis into Neural Networks: An Example in
Hopfield Net Searching," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
2. Schroeder, J., Xu, J., Chen, H., and Chau, M., "Automated Link Analysis Using CrimeLink
Explorer," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
3. Chau, M., Fang, X., and Yang, C. C., "A Study of Web Searching in Chinese," submitted to
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
4. Chau, M., Shiu, B., Chan, I., and Chen, H., "Design and Evaluation of a Backlink Web Search
Tool," submitted to Decision Support Systems.
5. Chau, M. and Xu, J., "Mining Communities and Their Relationships in Blogs: A Study of Hate
Groups," submitted to International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.
6. Chau, M. and Chen, H., "A Machine Learning Approach to Web Page Filtering Using Web
Content and Web Structure Analysis," submitted to ACM Transactions on Information Systems.
7. Fang, X., Sheng, O. R. L., and Chau, M., "ServiceFinder: A Method Towards Enhancing Eservice
Portals," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
8. Chau, M., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Tseng, C., and Chen, H., "A Framework for Creating Specialized
Search Engines in Multiple Languages," submitted to Journal of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology.
Book Chapters
1. 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, W. Hersh (Eds),
Advances in Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine,
Springer, 2005, pp. 35-62.
2. 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.
3. 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
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Digital Government: Technology, Human Factors, and Policy, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
April 2002, pp. 163-179.
Conference Publications
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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, Hualien, Taiwan, December 7-8,
2005.
4. 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.
5. Roussinov, D., Chau, M., Filatova, E., and 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Lin, M., Nunamaker, J. F., Chau, M., and Chen, H., “Segmentation of Lecture Videos Based on
Text: A Method Combining Multiple Linguistic Features,” accepted by the Thirty-Seventh
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-37), Big Island, Hawaii, January 5-
8, 2004.
12. Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Chau, M., and Chen, H., “Supporting Multilingual Information Retrieval in
Web Applications: An English-Chinese Web Portal Experiment,” accepted by the International
Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2003), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 8-11,
2003.
13. 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, June 2-3, 2003, pp. 281-295.
14. 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
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Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'03), Houston,
Texas, May 27-31, 2003, p. 387.
15. 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, May 18-21,
2003, pp. 45-48.
16. 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, May 18-21, 2003, pp. 261-266.
17. Chau, M., “Spidering and Filtering Web Pages for Vertical Search Engines,” in Proceedings of
The Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2002 Doctoral Consortium, Dallas,
Texas, August 8-11, 2002.
18. 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, July 14-18, 2002, pp. 135-144.
19. 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, July 14-18, 2002, p. 373.
20. 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, May 19-22, 2002, pp. 271-275.
21. 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, June 24-28, 2001, pp. 79-87.
22. 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, May 21-23, 2001.
23. 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, May 21-23, 2001.
24. 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, January 5-8,
1999.
Professional Activities
• Invited NSF Panelist, Information and Knowledge Management Program (IIS)
• Publicity Chair, IEEE Society (HK) Computational Intelligence Chapter (formerly Neural
Networks Chapter), 2003-present.
• Member of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, the Association of
Computing Machinery, the Association for Information Systems, and the IEEE Computer
Society.
• Program co-chair of the Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (WISI 2006).
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• Program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security
Informatics (2005), Workshop on the Sciences of the Artificial (WSA 2005), Information
Resources Management Association International Conference (IRMA 2006).
• Reviewed manuscripts for the following journals: IEEE Computer, Information Systems
Research, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology, ACM Transactions on Information Systems,
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part A and Part C), IEEE Transactions
on Intelligent Transportation Systems, INFORMS Journal on Computing, OMEGA, International
Journal of Electronic Business, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Electronic
Commerce Research and Applications, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Journal of
Database Management, Journal of Digital Libraries, Information Processing Letters,
Information Sciences, Information Retrieval, Pattern Recognition Letters, Journal of Zhejiang
University – Science, International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, and International
Journal of Computers and Their Applications.
• Reviewed manuscripts for the following conferences: International Conference on Information
Systems (2003), Americas Conference on Information Systems (2003, 2004), Joint Conference on
Digital Libraries (2001, 2002, 2004), European Conference on Digital Libraries (2002),
International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (2000, 2001, 2002), Asia-Pacific Conference
on Web Intelligence (2001, 2003), IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (2001),
China Digital Library Conference (2002), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(2003, 2004, 2005), ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (2003), IEEE International
Conference on Information Technology Research and Education (2003), IEEE International
Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (2004, 2005), and IEEE International
Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (2004, 2005).
Other Recognition and Awards
• Top-rated Teaching Effectiveness and Course Effectiveness in the Faculty, The University of
Hong Kong (Fall 2004)
• AMCIS Doctoral Consortium (2002)
• Graduate In-state Tuition Scholarship, the University of Arizona (2001-2003)
• Graduate Assistantship, the University of Arizona (1998-2003)
• Graduate Tuition Waiver, the University of Arizona (1998-2003)
• Dean Honors List, the University of Hong Kong (1995-1996, 1997-1998)
• The Tung OOCL Scholarship (1996-1997)
• The Hong Kong University Foundation Scholarship (1995-1996)
• The Belilios Fund Scholarship (1993-1995)
References
• Dr. Hsinchun Chen
Department of Management Information Systems
The University of Arizona
Phone: (520) 621-2748
Email: hchen@bpa.arizona.edu
• Dr. Christopher C. Yang
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Phone: (852) 2609-8239
Email: yang@se.cuhk.edu.hk
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• Dr. Benjamin Yen
School of Business
The University of Hong Kong
Phone: (852) 2241-5668
Email: benyen@business.hku.hk
• Dr. Olivia R. Liu Sheng
School of Accounting and Information System
University of Utah
Phone: (801) 585-9071
Email: olivia.sheng@business.utah.edu
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