Dickson K.W. Chiu received the M.Sc. (1994) and Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests are Library & Information Management, Service Computing, and E-learning with a cross-disciplinary approach. The results have been widely published in over 400 international publications (most have been indexed by SCI/-E, SSCI, and EI, including many taught master and undergraduate project results and around 20 edited books. He is an Editor (-in-chief) of, a prestigious journal indexed by SSCI. He is the Editor-in-chief Emeritus of the (founding) and the and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. According to Google Scholar, he has over 7,300 citations, h-index=44, i-10 index=166, and ranked worldwide 1st in "LIS," "m-learning," and "e-services."