TCDE Chair Candidate Xiaofang Zhou

Xiaofang Zhou is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Queensland, leading its Data and Knowledge Engineering research group. He received his BSc and MSc in Computer Science from Nanjing University, China, and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland. Before joining UQ in 1999, he worked as a researcher in CSIRO. His research focus is to find effective and efficient solutions for managing, integrating and analyzing very large amount of complex data for business, scientific and personal applications. He has been working in the area of spatial and multimedia databases, data quality, high performance query processing, Web information systems and bioinformatics, co-authored over 250 research papers with many published in top journals and conferences such as ICDE, SIGMOD, VLDB, The VLDB Journal, and various ACM and IEEE Transactions. He served the research community in various capacities including being Director of ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure, a major national research collaboration initiative in Australia, an Associate Editor of The VLDB Journal, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, WWW Journal, Distributed and Parallel Databases, and IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, a PC co-chair of ICDE, DASFAA, WISE, CoopIS and ADC, a member of IEEE TCDE executive committee, a steering committee member of DASFAA, WISE and ADC, and a steering committee chair of APWeb.