Dr. Eric LO
Associate Professor and Director of Big Data Lab, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr. Eric Lo is an associate professor of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Computing. He is now the director of the big data lab and the program leader of the department. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich in two years. Before Hong Kong, he had worked for Google (Mountain View), and was a visiting scientist of Microsoft (Redmond) and IBM Almaden Research. His recent research focuses on big data analytic and cloud databases. His research results have been published in many top database conferences, with three of his research papers have won the best paper awards. He has also served as program committee members for all the major world-class database conferences. His database research projects have been supported by fundings from Hong Kong Research Grant Council, Hong Kong Innovation & Technology Fund, and industrial partners like HP, Microsoft (Hong Kong), and Amazon.