Dr. Xiong's general area of research is data and knowledge engineering, with a focus on developing effective and efficient data analysis techniques for emerging data intensive applications. His research has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF), IBM Research, SAP Corporation, Panasonic USA Inc., and Rutgers University. He has published prolifically in refereed journals and conference proceedings, such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, the VLDB Journal, INFORMS Journal on Computing, the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal, ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), and ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS). He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of GIS (Springer, 2008) and an associate editor of the Knowledge and Information Systems journal. He has served regularly in the organization committees and the program committees of a number of international conferences and workshops, and has also been a reviewer for the leading academic journals in his fields. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM and the ACM SIGKDD.

2001.09-2005.07,Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMN) 1997.09-2000.07,M.S., Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS) 1991.09-1995.07,B.E., Automation, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)

2008.01-now,Associate Director, Rutgers Center for Information Assurance Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 2005.08-2009.06,Assistant Professor, Management Science and Information Systems Department Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 2009.09-2009.12,Visiting Scholar, STERN School of Business New York University, 2009.06-now,Associate Professor, Management Science and Information Systems Department Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

2010.01 Dean’s Award for Meritorious Research, Rutgers Business School 2009.02 Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence 2009.01 Two-year early promotion to Associate Professor (with tenure), Rutgers University 2008.12 IBM ESA Innovation Award 2008.10 Junior Faculty Research Award (One Per School), Rutgers Business School

2005.01-now,Associate Editor, the Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) Journal

Data and knowledge engineering , Data Mining