He received the Ph.D. degree in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University, Canada, in 2002. His research interests can be summarized as developing effective and efficient data analysis techniques for novel data intensive applications. Particularly, he is currently interested in various techniques of data mining, data warehousing, online analytical processing, and database systems, as well as their applications in bioinformatics, privacy preservation, software engineering, and education. He has has served regularly in the organization committees and the program committees of many international conferences and workshops. He presented a tutorial on Data Mining for Software Engineering, with Dr. Tao Xie, at KDD’06 as well as a number of other tutorials at KDD'01, '04, ICDE'04, '05, PAKDD'01, and WAIM'05.