Director of Center for Business Development, School of Business, Madonna University, USA
Prof Lau is an Assistant Professor of Data Analytics and Business Research and director of Center for Business Development in the School of Business at Madonna University in USA. Her research specialties include
(i) risk management and big data analytics;
(ii) e-learning and knowledge management;
(iii) e-business strategies, informatics and applications
in finance/healthcare/marketing/enterprise. She is currently the editorial board member of the International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, and the International Journal of E-Healthcare, and is the reviewer of several top journals such as Journal of Medical Internet Research, Industrial Management & Data Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, etc. Prof Lau is the Advisory Board Member of Asia Financial Risk Think Tank to research potential financial risks across USA, Europe and Asia using big data analytics with the international industrial experts.
Prof Lau published over 40 journal and conference papers and funded over 30 research and industrial collaboration and consultancy projects in the area of machine learning, business intelligence, social media analytics, big data analytics, intelligence applications, risk management, information system adoption, ontology/taxonomy building, enterprise business process re-engineering, portal design, knowledge management, e-learning, public/community health studies, healthcare systems and nursing clinical quality control & assessment. She gained several research and service awards including NANDA Foundation Research Grant Award and Faculty Merit Award in Services and was the co-director of the Center for Integrative Digital Health, and the committee member of Knowledge Management Research Center and Data Science Center in her prior institutions. She supervised the IT team on innovative healthcare product development, initiated and developed industrial applied-research consultancy projects.
Prof Lau had 20 years of program development and teaching experience in the master, undergraduate and online adult learning programs at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), University of Hong Kong (HKU), Middlesex University, UK, and University of London, UK, and gained several e-learning funds and an Inaugural Teaching and Learning Showcase Award in her prior institutions. Prof Lau was the UG coordinator, Program Advisory Board Chair, Program Quality Assurance Board Co-chair, UG Working Committee Management Group of the Interdisciplinary Programs Office in HKUST. She was the Program Committee member of BSc (Hons) in Risk Management and Business Intelligence of HKUST, BSc (Hons) in Enterprise Engineering with Management, MSc in Health Informatics, and MSc in Knowledge Management of PolyU. Besides teaching in the above programs, Prof Lau also taught in MSc in Industrial Logistics Systems, MSc in E-commerce, BEng (Hons) in Enterprise Information Systems, and BEng (Hons) in Computing of PolyU, and the UK Adult Learning programs of BSc (Hons) in Computing and Information Systems, and MSc in E-commerce in HKU. Her major works include teaching, e-learning research, industrial applied research collaboration, capstone project supervision, program admission, student interview and selection, program promotion, curriculum development, and student enrichment programs such as newsletter writing, symposium, student exchange, internship, mentorship, and alumni activities.
