Joe Kuan was born in Hong Kong and continued his education in the UK from secondary school to university. He studied computer science at the University of Southampton for his BSc and PhD. After finishing his education, he worked with different technologies and industries in the UK. Currently, he is working for iTrinegy—a company specializing in network emulation, profiling, and performance monitoring. He enjoys working on a variety of projects and applying different programming languages. Part of his role is to develop frontend data and present complex network data in stylish and interactive charts. He has adopted Highcharts in his company products since the early version 2. Since then, he has been contributing blogs (joekuan.wordpress.com) and software (joekuan.org) on Highcharts, Highstocks, and Highmaps. In December 2012, he published his first book, Learning Highcharts, Packt Publishing, which is a comprehensive book on Highcharts covering tutorials, examples, tricks, and tips.