Dr. Tianyong Hao is a full Professor and PhD supervisor at South China Normal University. He received his Ph.D. degree at City University of Hong Kong in 2010. He studied at York University, Canada, in 2008 and Emory University, USA, in 2009. After that, he worked at University of New South Wales, Australia, in 2012 and at Columbia University until 2014. 

Dr. Hao is a senior member of IEEE, an outstanding member of CCF, and the committee member of ISO TC37, SAC TC52 (associate secretary), AACI (associate secretary), CIPS (council member), CIPS Health Informatics section (Vice chair), CCF YOCSEF Guangzhou (Chair, 19-20), CCF Guangzhou (Vice chair) etc. He is also the leader of provincial level research team on NLP for big data. He currently is the committee director of a provincial engineering-technology center, and the director of a big data center under a provincial research institute.

He is the lead guest editor of several SCI journals including JMIR Medical Informatics, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, etc. He also serves for IEEE TII, ACM TIST, KAIS, JBI, as well as conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI, COLING, etc. He has published more than 190 SCI/EI indexed papers including IEEE TKDE, IEEE JBIH, ACM TALIP, C&E, etc. He is the PI of 3 grants from National Science Foundation of China and more than 20 grants in various levels (near 10 million RMB in total). He owns 9 best paper awards, 8 ISO/national standards (the first ISO standard in the history of SCNU), and 20 patents. 

Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Question Answering, Medical Informatics.