Elgar is a journalism graduate from the University of Hong Kong and an incoming student at the Oxford Internet Institute. He has been working on incorporating computational approach in politics and communication research. He has recently published in the Journal of Computational Social Science.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, he has spent most of his time in his city of birth. Previously, he stayed in Singapore to fulfill his compulsory military service and in Finland to study social issues and politics in former-Soviet republics.

Elgar is interested in data, video production and politics. He also likes photographing streets and travelling to places not flooded with tourists.

In addition to Cantonese, English and Mandarin, he also speaks a very tiny bit of Korean and Russian.