Xun Liang is a Professor at Renmin University of China. He is the chief expert of a major National Social Science Foundation project, and the leader of a key National Natural Science Foundation of China project. He has been engaged in research on network information mining, social computing and machine learning for many years, and has published more than 200 papers and 14 specialized books, and has applied for more than 10 national invention patents, one international patent and one American patent. He also serves as chairman of the procedural committees of national and international conferences and as a special invited theme presenter.