Samuel Chan received the M.Sc. degree from the University of Manchester, U.K., and M.Phil. degree from Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Ph.D. degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Before joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an associate professor, Samuel has been working in business intelligence, decision support systems, and text analytics in information systems. His current research interests are in applying machine learning techniques in text mining, sentiment analytics, financial text streaming analysis, and computational linguistics with emphasis on text-based decision making. He had won paper awards in two major conferences as well as the first place in one of the tracks in Fourth International Chinese Language Processing Bakeoff. Samuel is one of the chief architects in designing a text analytics open platform, called HanMosaic (HanMosaic.baf.cuhk.edu.hk), which analyses Chinese texts in real time.

Intelligent Systems; Data Mining; Text Processing in Information Systems; Information Retrieval / Extraction and their applications in E-Commerce