Formerly, he served as postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley, as well as scientist at A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research. He received his PhD from Nanyang Technological University on A*STAR Graduate Scholarship. At SMU, he leads the Preferred.AI research project, whose research activities span data mining and machine learning, focusing on preference analytics and recommender systems. More information may be found at http://www.hadylauw.com.