He received his bachelor degree from Tsinghua University, China in 1996 and his Ph.D. degree from Yale University in 2004. His research areas include ontologies, data mining, data integration, biomedical and health informatics, and the Semantic Web. Dejing Dou has published more than 50 research papers, some of which appear in prestigious conferences and journals like KDD, ICDM, SDM, CIKM, ISWC, JIIS and JoDS. His KDD'07 paper was nominated for the best research paper award. He is on the Editorial Boards of Journal on Data Semantics and Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. Dejing Dou has received over $4 million PI research grants from the NSF and the NIH.