Dr. Hui Xiong received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, USA, in 2005, the B.E. degree in Automation from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, and the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Management Science and Information Systems Department at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he received a two-year early promotion/tenure (2009), the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence (2009), an IBM ESA Innovation Award (2008), the Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2007) and the Junior Faculty Research Award (2008) at Rutgers Business School .
Dr. Xiong's general area of research is data and knowledge engineering, with a focus on developing effective and efficient data analysis techniques for emerging data intensive applications. His research h