Hui Xiong

Hui Xiong (Chinese: 熊辉; pinyin: Xióng Huī) is a Chinese computer scientist. He is a Dean's Research Professor at the Rutgers University Business School and a Distinguished Visiting Professor (Grand Master Chair Professor) at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

Xiong received his B.E. degree in Automation from the University of Science and Technology of China and his M.S. degree in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science with a minor in Statistics from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, in 2005.

Xiong became an Assistant Professor in the Management Science and Information Systems Department of Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick in 2005. He became an Associate Professor in the same place in 2009. In 2014, he became a full professor in the same place in 2014. He is now a Rutgers Business School Dean's Research Professor starting from 2016.

Xiong is currently Deputy Dean of Baidu Research Institute starting from 2019. Xiong currently also serves as the Founding Head of Business Intelligence Lab as well as the Founding Head of Talent Intelligence Center of Baidu Inc. starting from 2018.

Xiong serves as a co-Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of GIS. In addition, he is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) and ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS). In 2018, Xiong served as a PC Chair of the Research Track for the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD). In 2013 and 2015, he as a General Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). He also served as an Industry and Government Track Co-Chair of the 18th ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) in 2012

• "Encyclopedia of GIS"
• "Hyperclique pattern discovery: Algorithms and applications"
• "Clustering and Information Retrieval"

• IEEE Fellow, 2020
• The Ram Charan Management Practice Award as the Grand Prix winner, the Harvard Business Review, 2018
• RBS Dean’s Research Professor, 2016
• IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, 2017.
• ACM Distinguished Member, 2014
• Dean’s Award for Meritorious Research, Rutgers Business School, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015.
• 2011 IEEE ICDM Best Research Paper Award for the paper ”Personalized Travel Package Recommendation”, published at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (one out of 786 submissions), 2011.
• Second Prize of Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge, ICML and IJCNN, 2011.
• Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, 2009.
• IBM ESA Innovation Award, 2008.