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 the leader of provincial level research team on NLP for big data, the committee director of a provincial engineering-technology center, and the director of a big data center in provincial research institute. He is a senior member of IEEE, an outstanding member of CCF, and committee member of ISO/TC37, IEC/SyC, IEEE/CTSoc, SAC/TC62 (associate secretary), AACI (associate secretary), CIPS Health Informatics (deputy director), CCF Guangzhou (vice chair), etc.

He is the association editor of IEEE TEC, the lead guest editor of SCI journals such as JMIR Medical Informatics. He also serves for IEEE TII, ACM TIST, KAIS, as well as conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, COLING, etc. He has published more than 200 SCI/EI indexed papers including IEEE TKDE, ACM TALIP, etc. He is the PI of 3 grants from National Science Foundation of China and more than 20 grants in various levels (over 10 million RMB in total). He owns 2 ISO international standards (the first&sencond ISO standard in the history of SCNU), 8 national standards, 9 best paper awards from international conferences, and 3 academic awards from provincial associations or government.

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