COMP Distinguished Alumni Award 2014
Mr. Lee and Dr. Chuang are the co-founders of K-Matrix Group. They are an excellent example of successful partnership in which Mr. Lee is the CEO who takes care of the business side; while Dr. Chuang is the CRD (Chief Research Director) who is in charge of the research and development of the company’s technology backbone. K-Matrix was founded from the incubation program of Hong Kong Science Park back in 2005 when they started to develop a series of cutting edge analytics tools and systems for sophisticated digital intelligence analysis. With headquarter at Hong Kong, the company has expanded their business to the Greater China with branches set up at Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Currently they are serving their clients with advanced digital intelligence analytics system e.g. the renowned system K-Matrix CI Analytics and Greater China's first Facebook monitoring tool K-Matrix CI SoMe, supporting extensive analysis and real-time search for CGM, Weibo and Facebook. Besides the existing systems, they have launched some customized and cutting edge digital intelligence solutions to clients and partners. Since 2004, K- Matrix have been partnering with over 400 companies including charity, government and non-government organization in advertising, corporate communication, marketing and communication, media planning and public relation sectors in China and Hong Kong. Currently, they are planning to expand their business to Asia-Pacific region.
Mr. Lee graduated from BSc in Computing from the Department of Computing at PolyU in 1999. He has been serving in the IT industry for more than 10 years with solid experience in digital analysis. Currently he is serving as the Vice President of the Hong Kong Digital Analytics Association. He has been invited as guest lecturer or speaker by universities as well as associations in Greater China to share his experience in the digital intelligence expertise. He has been actively contributing to the research, and teaching and learning activities of COMP since graduation
Dr. Chuang graduated from the Department of Computing of BSc in Information Technology in 1999, MPhil in 2002 and PhD in Computer Science in 2009. As an active alumni, Dr. Chuang contributed to the department as guest speaker in seminars as well as departmental video and publications. He has strong interest in the research area of context-aware mobile computing, natural language processing, information retrieval and data mining.