Xiaohua (Tony) Hu is currently an associate professor (early tenured in 2007) and the founding director of the data mining and bioinformatics lab at the College of Information Science and Technology, one of the best information science schools in USA (ranked as #1 in 1999 and #3 in 2009 in information systems by U.S. News & World Report). He is the now also serving as the IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Steering Committee Chair, and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Granular Computing Technical Committee Chair (2007-2008). Tony is a scientist, teacher and entrepreneur. He joined Drexel University in 2002, founded the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (SCI indexed) in 2006, International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems in 2008. Earlier, he worked as a research scientist in the world-leading R&D centers such as Nortel Research Center, GTE labs and HP Labs. In 2001, he founded the DMW Software in Silicon Valley, California. His research ideas have been integrated into many commercial products and applications.

1985.01-now,B.Sc. (Software) from Wuhan University 1988.01-now,M.Eng. in Computer Engineering from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science 1992.01-now,M.Sc. in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University, Canada 1995.1-now,Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Regina, Canada

2001.01-now,founded the DMW Software in Silicon Valley, California 2002.01-now,worked as a research scientist in the world-leading R&D centers such as Nortel Research Center, GTE labs and HP Labs 2007.1-now,associate professor (early tenured in 2007) and the founding director of the data mining and bioinformatics lab at the College of Information Science and Technology,

2007.01 Best Paper Award at the 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2007.01 2007 IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Outstanding Contribution Award 2006.01 2006 IEEE Granular Computing Outstanding Service Award 2005.1 2005 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award 2004.01 Best Paper Award at the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2001.01 2001 IEEE Data Mining Outstanding Service Award

2007.1-now,IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Steering Committee Chair 2007.01-2008.-, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Granular Computing Technical Committee Chair 2005.01-now,IEEE Computer Society Granular Computing Steering Committee Co-Chair

Data/Text/Web Mining , Information Retrieval , Digital Library , Bioinformatics , HealthCare/Medical Informatics , Rough Sets , Data Warehouse/OLAP