She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, in 2005 and her M.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong university (SJTU), Shanghai China in 2000. Her general research interest is in the area of machine learning and data mining. She received an NSF Career Award in 2011. She co-organized the first International Workshop on Discovering, Utilizing and Summarizing Multiple Clustering (MultiClust KDD 2010), and served as the publicity chair for International Conference on Machine Learning in 2007. Dr. Xiaoli Fern is currently an editorial board member of the Machine Learning Journal and serves regularly on the program committee for a number of top tier international conferences on machine learning and data mining such as ICML, ECML, AAAI, KDD, ICDM, SIAM SDM.