XI SHAO received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China in 1999 and 2002, respectively, and got his Ph.D degree in Computer Science from the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2007. He is currently a professor in the College of Communication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China. His research interests are in multidisciplinary-inspired researches on Multimedia System, specifically including content based multimedia retrieval, multimedia personalization and recommendations etc. He published more than 40 Journals and conference papers in the area and as the principle investor for two NSF projects.