Harry Kai-Ho Chan

Dr. Harry Kai-Ho Chan is a Lecturer in Data Science at the University of Sheffield's School of Information, Journalism and Communication. He holds a BEng, MPhil, and PhD from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research focuses on data mining, big data analytics, and spatial data management, with particular emphasis on spatio-textual data, indoor location-based services, and applying machine learning in databases.

Before joining Sheffield in 2022, he was a Postdoc researcher on the "Data Management for Indoor Location-based Services" project at Roskilde University (2020-2022). He currently serves as the Interim Deputy Programme Coordinator for the BSc Data Science program and the Department Employability Lead for Data Science.

His work addresses efficient query processing for spatial data, co-location pattern mining, and uncertainty-aware systems in indoor environments. He has contributed to over 15 peer-reviewed publications in top venues like IEEE TKDE and VLDB.

Teaching responsibilities include courses like INF114 (Communicating Data), INF217 (Databases and beyond), and INF4000 (Data Visualization). He actively reviews for leading conferences (e.g., SIGKDD, ICDE) and journals (e.g., IEEE TKDE, GeoInformatica).