Dr Daqing Chen's main professional expertise and research interests are in the areas of business intelligence, data mining, intelligent information processing, and SAS system. Dr Chen joined the university in July 1999. Prior to this, Daqing worked as a research fellow in the System, Electronics and Information Laboratory, IRESTE, University of Nantes, Nantes, France (June 1998–July 1999); as a research associate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (December 1997–June 1998), and as a post-doctoral researcher and then an associate professor at the National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xian, China (February 1994–November 1997). Dr Chen is currently the Pathway Leader for BSc and HND Business Intelligence. He is also the leader of the Public Analytics research group.