Prior to that he was an Associate Research Scientist and NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow in information systems at Stern Business School of New York University in New York. His current research interests include data mining, machine learning, and related applications. Dr. Sheng is a senior member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society, and a Lifetime Member of ACM. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award Runner-Up from KDD'08, the Best Paper Award from ICDM'11, and the Best Student Paper Award Finalist from WISE'15.