====== Thomas, Chan Kam Tong (陳錦棠) ======

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**Thomas, Chan Kam Tong** is currently a MPhil. student at the [[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk|Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering]] of [[http://www.cuhk.edu.hk|The Chinese University of Hong Kong]] under supervision of [[http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~king|Prof. Irwin King]]. He received his B.Sc. degree (First-Class Honour) from the same university. \\

===== Contact Info =====

Office Tel: (852) 31634266 \\
Email: ktchan (AT) cse.cuhk.edu.hk \\
Office Address: Room 114A, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building, \\
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong



===== Research Interest =====
  * Information Retrieval
  * Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
  * Text and Natural Language Processing
  * Web Data Mining

[[http://wiki.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king/kb/opinionmining|Let's take a look at our research group's page]]


===== Project Involvements =====
  * Intelligent Language Games with Social Interactions: Models and Applications, Microsoft Research Asia
  * Conference Management System Development, ICONIP 2007 - 14th International Conference on Neural Information Processing

===== Teaching Experiences =====
  * CSC1110 Intro. to Computing Using C
  * CSC1120 Intro. to Computing Using C++
  * CSC2100 Data Structure
  * CSC3100 Software Engineering
  * CSC5340 Advanced Topics in Distributed System

===== Working Experiences =====
  * **2007-Now**: Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CUHK
  * **2006**: Summer Intern, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited



===== Selected Awards =====
  * Dean's Honour List, Faculty of Engineering, CUHK, 2005-2007
  * Department/Programme Scholarships, Shaw College, CUHK, 2007
  * First Runner Up, CSE Departmental Programming Contest, 2005


===== Publications =====
  * <bibtex>
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/pakdd/KtCHAN09,
  author    = {Kam Tong Chan and
               Irwin King},
  title     = {Let's Tango -- Finding the Right Couple for Feature-Opinion Association in Sentiment Analysis},
  booktitle = {PAKDD 2009: Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 13th Pacific-Asia Conference},
  year      = {2009},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/pakdd/2009},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de},
  address =	 {Bangkok, Thailand},
  month =	 {April 27-30,}
}
</bibtex>

  * <bibtex>
@inproceedings{ijcnn09_king,
	Author = {King, Irwin and Li, Jiexing and Chan, Kam Tong},
	Booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2009)},
	Date-Added = {2009-03-28 12:26:03 +0800},
	Date-Modified = {2009-03-28 12:29:00 +0800},
	Month = {June 14-19,},
	Title = {A Brief Survey of Computational Approaches in Social Computing},
	Year = {2009}}
</bibtex>

  * <bibtex>
@inproceedings{WI_RATE,
 author = {Wei Wei and Kam Tong Chan and Irwin King and Jimmy Ho Man Lee},
 title = {RATE: a Review of Reviewers in a Manuscript Review Process},
 booktitle = {WI '08: Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence},
 year = {2008},
 publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
 address = {Sydney, Australia},
 }
</bibtex>

===== Others =====
  * [[http://ririanproject.com/2007/04/20/10-golden-lessons-from-steve-jobs/|10 Golden Lessons from Steve Jobs]]


===== Some Links =====

  * http://group2009conference.org/?q=node/13
  * http://www.icwsm.org/2009/cfp.shtml