His research interests include large-scale data mining, text mining, graph/network mining and social network analysis. Feida is the Founding Director of the Pinnacle Lab for Analytics with China Ping An Insurance Group and the DBS-SMU Life Analytics Lab. He has published more than 80 papers in referred international conferences and journals, including ICDE, VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDM, WWW, JMLR, TODS, TKDE, etc. His work has won The Best Paper Award at 2016 International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA’16) and The Best Student Paper Awards at 2007 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’07) and 2007 Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD’07). Feida obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2009, supervised by Prof. Jiawei Han.