Biography:  Xiaofang Zhou is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Queensland. He is the Head of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Research Division at UQ, the Convenor and Director of ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure, and the founding chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL Australian Chapter. Xiaofang received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University, China, and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland. Before joining UQ in 1999, he worked as a researcher in Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), leading its Spatial Information Systems group. His research focus is to find effective and efficient solutions for managing, integrating and analyzing very large amount of complex data for business, scientific and personal applications. He has been working in the area of spatial and multimedia databases, data quality, high performance query processing, Web information systems and bioinformatics, co-authored over 170 research papers with many published in top journals and conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, ACM Multimedia, The VLDB Journal, ACM Transactions and IEEE Transactions. He was the Program Committee Chair of IFIP Conference on Visual Databases (VDB 2002), Australasian Database Conferences (ADC 2002 and 2003), International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2004), Asia Pacific Web Conferences (APWeb 2003 and 2006), International Conference on Databases Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009), and a Vice Program Committee Chair for International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009). He has been on the program committees of numerous international conferences, including SIGMOD (2007, 08, 09), VLDB (2008, 09), ICDE (2005-07, 09-11) and WWW (2006, 08, 09). Currently he is an Associate Editor of The VLDB Journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, World Wide Web Journal and Springer's Web Information System Engineering book series. In the past he was an Associate Editor of Information Processing Letters and an area editor of Encyclopaedia of Database Systems. He is an Adjunct Professor at Renmin University of China under the Chinese National QianRen Scheme. Further information about him can be found at http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~zxf