Discussion of “Analyzing Behavioral Big Data: Methodological, practical, ethical, and moral issues”

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About the authors

Kwok Leung Tsui is Head and Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at the City University of Hong Kong, and the founder and Director of Center for Systems Informatics Engineering. Prior to joining City University of Hong Kong, Prof. Tsui was Professor at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prof. Tsui was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award. He is Fellow of the American Statistical Association, American Society for Quality, and International Society of Engineering Asset Management; a U.S. representative to the ISO Technical Committee on Statistical Methods. Prof. Tsui was Chair of the INFORMS Section on Quality, Statistics, and Reliability and the Founding Chair of the INFORMS Section on Data Mining. Prof. Tsui's current research interests include data mining, surveillance in healthcare and public health, prognostics and systems health management, calibration and validation of computer models, process control and monitoring, and robust design and Taguchi methods.

Yang Zhao received her Bachelor's degree in Statistics from Shandong University of Science and Technology in 2011 and her Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong in 2015. She is currently a Postdoc Fellow in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are in data mining and statistics, especially their application to real problems. She is a member of IEEE.

Acknowledgments

Prof. Kwok Leung Tsui gratefully acknowledges support from RGC Theme-based Research Scheme No. T32-101/15-R and T32-102/14-N.