Dr. Xiaowang Zhang is currently a professor in the College of Intelligence and Computing at Tianjin University in China and a visiting associate professor at Griffith University in Australia. He received my Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 2011 (supervisor: prof. Zuoquan Lin) and previously worked as a postdoc at Hasselt University in Belgium (Sep. 2011 - Dec. 2014, supervisor: prof. Jan Van den Bussche). In 2009, he worked at Griffith University in Australia as a visiting Ph.D. student and in 2018, he worked at Griffith University in Australia as a visiting associate professor. His main area of research is that of artificial intelligence, knowledge graph, databases, and the semantic web. Currently, he is mostly interested in data management and data processing in a distributed context. In the past, he worked on knowledge representation and reasoning, ontology non-classical reasoning, and logics in databases, etc. In 2018, he was selected in the program of Peiyang Young Scholars at Tianjin University. In 2016, he won the ACM Tianjin Rising Star award.

Academic activities: Data Intelligence (Associate Editor), CCKS 2021(KRL Area Chair), GDMA 2021 (PC Chair), CCKS 2020(LOD Area Chair), GDMA 2020(PC Chair), JIST 2019(Tutorial Chair), GDMA 2019(PC Chair), CCKS 2018(Local chair), GDMA 2018@DASFAA 2018 (PC co-chair), JIST 2017 (Proceedings Chair), CCKS 2017 (Publicity co-chair), GDMA 2017@APWeb-WAIM 2017 (PC co-chair), etc.