diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/user-summary-category-search.js.es6 b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/user-summary-category-search.js.es6
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..86def06ee1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/user-summary-category-search.js.es6
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import computed from "ember-addons/ember-computed-decorators";
+
+export default Ember.Component.extend({
+  tagName: "",
+
+  @computed("user", "category")
+  searchParams() {
+    return `@${this.get("user.username")} #${this.get("category.slug")}`;
+  }
+});
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/user-summary-category-search.hbs b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/user-summary-category-search.hbs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..50ab46f1dc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/components/user-summary-category-search.hbs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{{#if count}}
+  {{#link-to 'full-page-search' (query-params q=searchParams)}}
+    {{count}}
+  {{/link-to}}
+{{else}}
+  –
+{{/if}}
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/user/summary.hbs b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/user/summary.hbs
index 6d6a20b08fd..cc8e141512b 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/user/summary.hbs
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/templates/user/summary.hbs
@@ -131,10 +131,10 @@
                   {{category-link category allowUncategorized="true" hideParent=false}}
                 </td>
                 <td class='topic-count'>
-                  {{category.topic_count}}
+                  {{user-summary-category-search user=user category=category count=category.topic_count}}
                 </td>
                 <td class='reply-count'>
-                  {{category.post_count}}
+                  {{user-summary-category-search user=user category=category count=category.post_count}}
                 </td>
               </tr>
             {{/each}}