He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1994. His research interests include Web warehousing, electronic commerce, database integration and digital libraries. He has published more than 100 refereed journal and conference articles. He has also chaired several conferences and workshops, including the Fifth International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2002) and the ACM Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2001 and 2002). He has served in the program committee of numerous international conferences. Dr. Lim is currently the director of the Centre for Advanced Information Systems at NTU. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.