Hady is currently a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Search Labs in Mountain View, California. Previously, he pursued his Ph.D. and B.Eng (1^st Class) degrees at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His Ph.D. thesis was in the area of social network mining from user-generated content, and was pursued under the supervision of Ee-Peng Lim and HweeHwa Pang. Hady was a recipient of several fellowship awards, including A*STAR Graduate Scholarship for his graduate studies and Dr Goh Keng Swee Scholarship award for his undergraduate studies. His research interests include social network mining and Web search.