Hui Xiong

Hui Xiong is a Chinese data scientist. Xiong Hui holds esteemed positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) as a Chair Professor, and Associate Vice President for Knowledge Transfer. Before joining HKUST(GZ), he was a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University and held the position of Chief Scientist (Smart City) and Deputy Dean at Baidu Research Institute, overseeing five research labs. Xiong was also a distinguished guest professor (Grand Master Chair Professor) at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

Education Xiong received his B.E. degree in automation from the University of Science and Technology of China and his M.S. degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. in computer science with a minor in statistics from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in 2005 under Vipin Kumar.

Career Xiong became an assistant professor in the management science and information systems department of Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick in 2005. He became an associate professor in the same place in 2009. In 2014, he became a full professor in the same place in 2014. He became a Rutgers Business School Dean's Research Professor in 2016. He became a distinguished professor in the same place in 2021.

Xiong served as deputy dean of Baidu Research Institute and the founding head of business intelligence lab as well as the founding head of talent intelligence center of Baidu Inc. while on leave from Rutgers University.

Xiong now holds esteemed positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) as a Chair Professor, and Associate Vice President for Knowledge Transfer.

Professional service Xiong serves as Founding Editor-in-Chief of Nature npj Artificial Intelligence journal. Xiong also serves as a co-editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia of GIS. In addition, he is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) and ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS). In 2018, Xiong served as a PC chair of the research track for the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD). In 2013 and 2015, he was a general chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). He also served as an industry and government track co-chair of the 18th ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) in 2012.

Books "Encyclopedia of GIS" "Hyperclique pattern discovery: Algorithms and applications" "Clustering and Information Retrieval"

Media highlights "The Economist, Crime prevention Cutpurse capers" "The Ethics Of Big Data" "Dr Hui Xiong – Harnessing Big Data to Identify Ideal Locations for Warehouses and Bike Share Stations"

Selected honors and distinctions CCF Fellow, 2025 ACM Fellow, 2025 AAAI Fellow, 2025 Distinguished professor with tenure, Rutgers University, 2021. AAAI 2021 Best Paper Award, 2021 AAAS Fellow, 2020 IEEE Fellow, 2020 The Ram Charan Management Practice Award as the Grand Prix winner, the Harvard Business Review, 2018 RBS Dean’s Research Professor, 2016 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, 2017. ACM Distinguished Member, 2014 Dean’s Award for Meritorious Research, Rutgers Business School, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015. 2011 IEEE ICDM Best Research Paper Award for the paper ”Personalized Travel Package Recommendation”, published at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (one out of 786 submissions), 2011. Second Prize of Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge, ICML and IJCNN, 2011. Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, 2009. IBM ESA Innovation Award, 2008.

Graduated Ph.D. students Xiong is also a mentor who has a record of producing Ph.D. students who have gone on to become faculty in major academic institutions. In particular, 11 out of 17 his Ph.D. graduates have become tenure-track professors in major research universities, such as the University of Arizona, Stony Brook University, George Mason University, University of Central Florida, the City University of Hong Kong, ESCP - Paris, University of Kansas and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.