Bio

David N. Chin is a Professor Emeritus and former Chair of the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He received his B.S. from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley where he developed UC, the UNIX Consultant, an intelligent agent that answers questions about the UNIX operating system and infers a model of the user's knowledge of UNIX from the interaction. David is an internationally recognized expert in the field of user modeling. He has served on the editorial board of the international journal, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction since its inception in 1990 until 2022 and currently serves on the journal's advisory board. Dr. Chin has guest edited eights special issues of UMUAI. He was the program and local arrangements chair of the 2nd International Conference on User Modeling in 1990, the general chair of the 5th International Conference on User Modeling in 1996, the general chair of the 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization in 2010, the program co-chair of the 26th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization in 2018 and a program committee member of many of these Conferences. Dr. Chin has published over 68 peer-reviewed articles that have been cited more than 2100 times (Google Scholar) and has been the PI or co-PI on 20 grants/contracts totaling $3.9 million. He has previously served as Vice-Chair (2006-7) and then Chair (2007-8) of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Faculty Senate.

Curriculum Vita

David Chin's curriculum vitae in Adobe Acrobat PDF format provides more details on his professional activities and accomplishments.

Miscellaneous

Here is an old picture of David and a picture of him in his old office and another of him scuba diving. This particular picture was taken at Cod Hole, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, but most of his diving is done locally in Hawaii. Another of his hobbies is windsurfing. Unfortunately this picture is not of him, perhaps someday when his skills improve :-). Here is another windsurfing picture from WindSurfing Magazine.