B.Sc.(HK); Ph.D.(Princeton)
Hi! My name is Benjamin Kao. I am an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong. I received the B.S. degree in computer science from HKU in 1989, the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ in 1991 and 1995 respectively. From 1992 to 95, I had been a research fellow in the computer science department at Stanford University. My research interests include database management, distributed algorithms, real-time systems, and information retrieval systems.
I like basketball and American football. My favorite teams are the New
York Knicks 
and the San Francisco 49ers 
I am supervising 3 Ph.D. students and 4 MPhils. K.K. Loo is studying time-delayed association rule mining. Jacky Ngai is studying efficient clustering algorithms for uncertain data. C.K. Chui is working on the design and implementation of an OLAP system for sequence data analysis. Smith Tsang is working on classifying uncertain data. Paul Chan is working on clustering uncertain data using Veronoi Diagrams. Kelvin Zhang is applying data mining techniques on software testing. Finally, For Lee will probably help us on our investigation of Sequence OLAPs.
13 of my research students have graduated:
C.K. Chui (M.Phil. Thesis: Mining Frequent Itemsets and Order Preserving Submatrices from Uncertain Data, 2007)
Alan Kwan (M.Phil. Thesis: Adaptive Stream Filters For Entity-Based Queries with Non-value Tolerance, 2007)
Zhang Ming Hua (Ph.D. Thesis: Sequence Mining Algorithms, 2005)
Bill Lin (M.Phil. Thesis: Finding Frequent Itemsets over Bursty Data Streams, 2005)
Ivy Tong (M.Phil. Thesis: Techniques in Data Stream Mining, 2005)
Sarah Chan (M.Phil. Thesis: Emerging Substrings for Sequence Classification, 2003)
Felix
Cheung (M.Phil. Thesis: Efficient Algorithms for Semantic Net Construction
and Maintenance, 2002)
Michael Tang (M.Phil.
Thesis: Sequence Classification and Melody Tracks Selection, 2002)
Joseph Lee (Ph.D. Thesis:
Information Retrieval on the World-Wide-Web, 2001)
C.Y. Ng (M.Phil. Thesis: Recommending
Information Sources on WWW, 2001)
Beta Yip (Ph.D. Thesis: Discovering
Patterns in Databases -- The Cases for Language, Music, and Unstructured
Data, 2001)
K.K. Loo (M.Phil. Thesis:
Efficient Mining of Association Rules Using Conjectural Information, 2001)
Reynold Cheng (M.Phil.
Thesis: View Updates and Temporal Correctness in Real-Time Databases, 2000)
Here is a list of my publications,
and some of my academic
activities.
Last updated: November 2007