Dr. Hui Xiong is currently a Full Professor in the Management Science and Information Systems Department at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he received RBS Dean’s Research Professorship (2016), a two-year early promotion/tenure (2009), the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence (2009), and the Best Research Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). For his outstanding contributions to data mining and mobile computing, he was elected an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2014.
Dr. Xiong is a prominent researcher in the areas of business intelligence, data mining, and big data. He has a distinguished academic record that includes 200+ referred papers in conference proceedings and journals, and an authoritative Encyclopedia of GIS (Springer). He is serving on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. Also, he served as a Program Co-Chair of the Industrial and Government Track for the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2012), a Program Co-Chair for the IEEE 2013 International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2013), a General Co-Chair for the IEEE 2015 International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2015), and a Program Co-Chair of the Research Track for the 2018 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-2018).
Dr. Xiong is committed to data science education. He has graduated 11 PhD students, and most of them are now faculty members in major research universities in USA, such as the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, the University of Arizona – Tucson, Stony Brook University, George Mason University, and Drexel University.
Homepage: http://datamining.rutgers.edu