Hui Xiong

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| birth_place = Nanchang, China

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| workplaces = Rutgers University

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| alma_mater = University of Science and Technology of China (B.E. in Automation, 1995)
National University of Singapore (M.S. in Computer Science, 2000)
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (Ph.D. in Computer Science minor Statistics, 2005)

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| known_for = Artificial Intelligence
Data Science
Mobile Computing
Business Intelligence
Talent Intelligence
Information Assurance

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| awards = Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Rutgers Business School (2007), IBM ESA Innovation Award (2008), Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence (2009), Second Prize of Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge, ICML and IJCNN (2011), 2011 IEEE ICDM Best Research Paper Award (2011), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2014), IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award (2017), RBS Dean’s Research Professor (2016), The Ram Charan Management Practice Award as the Grand Prix winner, the Harvard Business Review (2018), IEEE Fellow (2020), AAAS Fellow (2020), Rutgers University Distinguished Professor, 2021.

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Hui Xiong ({{zh|s=熊辉|p=Xióng Huī}}) is a data scientist. He is a distinguished professor at Rutgers University and a distinguished guest professor (Grand Master Chair Professor) at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

Education

Xiong received his B.E. degree in automation from the University of Science and Technology of China and his M.S. degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in computer science with a minor in statistics from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in 2005 under Vipin Kumar.{{cite web |title=Alumni |url=https://vkumar.umn.edu/alumni |website=Vipin Kumar |publisher=University of Minnesota |access-date=23 November 2022}}

Career

Xiong became an assistant professor in the management science and information systems department of Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick in 2005. He became an associate professor in the same place in 2009. In 2014, he became a full professor in the same place in 2014. He became a Rutgers Business School Dean's Research Professor in 2016.{{Cite web |title=Professor Hui Xiong |url=http://datamining.rutgers.edu/ |department=Data Mining |website=Rutgers}} Now he is a distinguished professor in the same place starting from 2021.

Xiong served as deputy dean of Baidu Research Institute {{Cite web |title=Hui Xiong |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/hui-xiong-876a452 |department=People |website=LinkedIn}} and the founding head of business intelligence lab as well as the founding head of talent intelligence center of Baidu Inc. while on leave from Rutgers University.{{Cite web|url=http://research.baidu.com/Research_Areas/index-view?id=57|title=Baidu Research|website=research.baidu.com}}

Professional service

Xiong serves as a co-editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia of GIS.{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of GIS |year=2008|publisher=SpringerLink|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1|isbn=978-0-387-30858-6|editor1-last=Shekhar|editor1-first=Shashi|editor2-first=Hui|editor2-last=Xiong}} In addition, he is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD),{{Cite web|url=https://computingnow.computer.org/web/tbd/about|title=About TBD |website=IEEE Computer Society}} ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD){{Cite web|url=https://dl.acm.org/journal/tkdd/editorial-board|title=TKDD Editorial Board|website=ACM}} and ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS).{{Cite web|url=https://dl.acm.org/journal/tmis/editorial-board|title=TMIS Editorial Board|website=dl.acm.org}} In 2018, Xiong served as a PC chair of the research track for the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD).{{Cite web|url=https://www.kdd.org/kdd2018/about/organizers|title=KDD 2018 | Organizers|website=www.kdd.org}} In 2013 and 2015, he as a general chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).{{Cite web|url=https://icdm2015.stonybrook.edu/content/organization/|title=Organization | ICDM 2015|website=icdm2015.stonybrook.edu}} He also served as an industry and government track co-chair of the 18th ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) in 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://kdd2012.sigkdd.org/organizers.shtml|title=Conference Organizers | KDD 2012|website=kdd2012.sigkdd.org}}

Books

"Encyclopedia of GIS"{{cite book

| author = Shashi Shekhar, Hui Xiong

| title = Encyclopedia of GIS

| year = 2008

| publisher = Springer

| isbn = 978-0387359755}}

"Hyperclique pattern discovery: Algorithms and applications"{{cite book

| last = Xiong

| first = Hui

| title = Hyperclique pattern discovery: Algorithms and applications

| publisher = Quest Information and Learning

| isbn = 0-5422-6663-6}}

"Clustering and Information Retrieval"{{cite book

| last = Wu

| first = Weili | author1-link = Weili Wu

|author2 = Hui Xiong |author3 = Shashi Shekhar

| title = Clustering and Information Retrieval

| year = 2003

| publisher = Kluwer Academic Publishers

| isbn = 1-4020-7682-7}}

Media highlights

"The Economist, Crime prevention Cutpurse capers"{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2016/08/18/cutpurse-capers | title = The Economist| newspaper = The Economist}}
"The Ethics Of Big Data"{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/emc/2014/03/27/the-ethics-of-big-data/#78beeae86852 | title = Forbes News| website = Forbes}}
"Dr Hui Xiong – Harnessing Big Data to Identify Ideal Locations for Warehouses and Bike Share Stations"{{cite web|url=https://www.scientia.global/dr-hui-xiong-harnessing-big-data-to-identify-ideal-locations-for-warehouses-and-bike-share-stations/ | title = Scientia Global| date = 29 July 2020}}

Selected honors and distinctions

Distinguished professor with tenure, Rutgers University, 2021.
AAAI 2021 Best Paper Award,{{cite web|url=https://syncedreview.com/2021/02/04/aaai-2021-best-papers-announced/ |title=AAAI 2021 Best Papers Announced |date = 2021-02-04 |publisher=AAAI}} 2021
AAAS Fellow,{{cite web|url=https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-announces-leading-scientists-elected-2020-fellows |title=AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2020 Fellows |date = 2020-11-24 |publisher=IEEE}} 2020
IEEE Fellow,{{cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2020-ieee-fellow-class.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204053736/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2020-ieee-fellow-class.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 4, 2019 |title=2020 NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOWS |date = 2019-11-27 |publisher=IEEE}} 2020
The Ram Charan Management Practice Award as the Grand Prix winner, the Harvard Business Review, 2018
RBS Dean’s Research Professor, 2016
IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, 2017.
ACM Distinguished Member,{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/xiong_2153112|title=Professor Hui Xiong|website=awards.acm.org}} 2014
Dean’s Award for Meritorious Research, Rutgers Business School, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015.
2011 IEEE ICDM Best Research Paper Award for the paper ”Personalized Travel Package Recommendation”, published at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (one out of 786 submissions), 2011.
Second Prize of Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge, ICML and IJCNN, 2011.
Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, 2009.
IBM ESA Innovation Award, 2008.

Graduated Ph.D. students

Xiong is also a mentor who has a record of producing Ph.D. students who have gone on to become faculty in major academic institutions. In particular, 11 out of 17 his Ph.D. graduates have become tenure-track professors in major research universities, such as the University of Arizona, Stony Brook University, George Mason University, University of Central Florida, the City University of Hong Kong, ESCP - Paris, University of Kansas and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.