Date & Time： 2016.6.12 10:00-11:00

Location: The Second Floor Conference Room in the School of Information Engineering,

Title： Big Data Clustering

Seminar Speaker： Prof. Dong Xu

Dong Xu is James C. Dowell Professor and Chair of Computer Science Department, with appointments in the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and the Informatics Institute at the University of Missouri. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1995 and did two-year postdoctoral work at the US National Cancer Institute. He was a Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 2003 before joining University of Missouri. His research focuses on bioinformatics and computational biology. He has published more than 230 papers. He is a recipient of 2001 R&D 100 Award, 2003 Federal Laboratory Consortium’s Award of Excellence in Technology Transfer, and 2010 Outstanding Achievement Award from International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine. He is Editor in Chief of “International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine” and Associate Editor-in-Chief of “IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.”