He received his BEng degree in computer science and engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1998, and his PhD degree in computer science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2002. His research interests include mobile and pervasive computing, wireless sensor networks, and distributed systems, with an emphasis on data management. He has published over 40 technical papers in these areas, many in prestigious journals and conferences, including SIGMOD, MobiSys, ICDE, EDBT, INFOCOM, TKDE, and VLDBJ. He has served as a session chair and program committee member for many international conferences, including IEEE INFOCOM and MDM. He is currently a program committee co-chair of International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Information Management (P2PIM'06). For more information, please visit http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~xujl. Baihua Zheng