Prof. CHIU Dah Ming

Research Professor
Felizberta Lo Padilla Tong School of Social Sciences
Key Research Areas
  • Interdisciplinary research applying data science and AI
  • Government policies in various areas, including social service, education and planning
  • Community services, especially elderly care, and NGO operations
  • Innovative methods for evaluation of social service projects
  • Data analysis of academic ecosystem, to help research and evaluation

 

 

 

 
Core Areas of Expertise
Prof. Chiu is an IEEE Fellow with expertise in mathematical modeling and data analysis. In his career, he has worked on different topics and research problems, notably database query optimization, Internet congestion control, network content distribution service, academic publication analysis, social networks and ride-on-demand services. More recently, he has collaborated mostly with social science colleagues working on explaining social phenomenon, studying public policies such as poverty measurement, retirement savings policy, housing issues, and elderly care services. His latest projects and interest address evaluation of social service projects.

 

 Recent Publications
2025
  • Accuracy of Measuring Relative Poverty: Using Hong Kong as an Example
2022
  • Why Hong Kong ranks highest in life expectancy: Looking for answers from data sciences and social sciences
2021
  • Multi-site user behavior modeling and its application in video recommendation
  • A population model for academia: Case study of the computer science community using DBLP bibliography 1960-2016

 

 Awards & Patents
Prof. Chiu is co-inventor for no less than 28 US Patents. Out of that, 6 were based on work after he became a university professor in Hong Kong. He is also recognized as a Stanford top 2% scholar in Networking & Telecommunications (career-long).