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 an assistant professor in 2001, and at present he is Cheung Kong professor (appointed by the Ministry of Education of China), founding director of the LAMDA Group, and director of the AI Lab.

He has wide research interests, mainly including artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, information retrieval, evolutionary computation and neural computation. In these areas he has published over 70 papers in leading international journals or conferences, and holds 9 patents. He has won various awards/honors such as 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 Young Professorship Award (2006) and a number of journal/conference paper awards.

He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Science Bulletin, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, and on the editorial boards of over ten journals including Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Elsevier), Intelligent Data Analysis (IOS), Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Springer), Science China, etc. He is the Founding Steering Committee Co-Chair of ACML, Steering Committee member of PAKDD and PRICAI, Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair of PAKDD'07, PRICAI'08 and ACML'09, Vice Chair or Area Chair or Senior PC of conferences including IEEE ICDM'06, IEEE ICDM'08, SIAM DM'09, ACM CIKM'09, ACM KDD'10, ECMLPKDD'10, ICPR'10, etc., and General Chair/Co-Chair or Program Committee Chair/Co-Chair of a dozen of native conferences. He is an Adjunct Professor of universities including the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and Academic Committee member of the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing (Fudan University), MOE-Microsoft Key Laboratory of Visual Perception (Zhejiang University), and MOE Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering (Jilin University).

He is a senior member of the China Computer Federation (CCF), the Vice Chair of the CCF Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Society, an Executive Committee member of the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the Chair of the CAAI Machine Learning Society, the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Nanjing Chapter.

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