Professor Xiaofang Zhou is Otto Poon Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Currently, he is Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Co-Director of Big Data Institute. He is the founding director of HKUST-HKPC Joint Lab on Industrial AI and Robotics Research, HKUST-China Unicom Joint Lab on Smart Society, and JC STEM Lab on Data Science Foundations. He has been working in data science, spatiotemporal databases, data mining, data quality management, high-performance query processing, big data analytics, and machine learning, co-authored over 500 research papers. He received Best Paper Awards from WISE 2012&2013, ICDE 2015&2019, DASFAA 2016 and ADC 2019. He was Program Committee Chair of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013), ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), and International Conference on Very Large Databases (PVLDB 2020). Professor Zhou is a Global STEM Scholar of Hong Kong and an IEEE Fellow.