Prof. Rui Mao received BS(1997) and MS(2000) in computer science from the University of Science and Technology of China, and MS(2006) in Statistics and Ph.D. (2007) in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. After three years work at the Oracle USA Corporation, he joined Shenzhen University in 2010. He is now Associate Dean of the College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, and Executive Director of the Shenzhen Institute of Computing Sciences. His research mainly focuses on universal data processing.