Prior to joining the faculty at TKU in 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Intelligent Agent Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Information Management at National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He received his MBA in Management Information System from Tamkang University, Taiwan. His current research interests include Electronic Commerce, Financial Technology, Social Media Marketing, Information Systems Evaluation, Question Answering Systems, Data Mining and Text Mining, and Biomedical Informatics. He has published papers in Information & Management, Decision Support Systems, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, and a number of international conference proceedings.