Zhi-Hua Zhou received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Nanjing University, China, in 1996, 1998 and 2000, respectively, all with the highest honor. He joined the Department of Computer Science & Technology of Nanjing University as a lecturer in 2001, and at present he is Cheung Kong professor (appointed by the Ministry of Education of China), head of the LAMDA Group, and director of the AI Lab.

He has wide research interests, mainly including artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, pattern recognition, evolutionary computation, and neural computation. In these areas he has published over 60 papers in leading international journals or conference proceedings. He has won various awards/honors mainly including the National Science & Technology Award for Young Scholars of China (2006), the Award of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (2003), the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of China (2003), the Microsoft Professorship Award (2006), etc.

He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, executive editor of Chinese Science Bulletin, editorial board member of Science in China (Series F: Information Science), associate editor/action editor/lead area editor/editorial board member of journals including Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier), Intelligent Data Analysis (IOS), Knowledge and Information Systems (Springer), Journal of Computer Science & Technology (Springer), Journal of Software (in Chinese), etc. He is/was a member of the PAKDD Steering Committee, program committee chair/co-chair of PAKDD'07 and PRICAI'08, vice chair / area chair of conferences including IEEE ICDM'06, IEEE ICDM'08, etc., advisory committee or program committee member of various international conferences including premium ones such as AAAI, ICML, ECML, ACM SIGKDD, IEEE ICDM, ACM Multimedia, etc., and general chair/co-chair or program committee chair/co-chair of a dozen of native conferences. He is/was a grant review panelist for the National Science Foundation of China (Information Science Division) and the Jiangsu Science Foundation (Information Science Group), and grant reviewer for the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong and NWO-The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. He is an adjunct professor of the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and academic committee member of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, and MOE-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Visual Perception, Zhejiang University.

He is a senior member of the China Computer Federation (CCF), vice chair of the CCF Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Society, executive committee member of the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), chair of the CAAI Machine Learning Society, vice chair of the CAAI Rough Set and Soft Computing Society, chair of the IEEE Computer Society Nanjing Chapter, member of the AAAI and the ACM, and senior member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

Prof. Zhou's URL is at http://cs.nju.edu.cn/zhouzh/