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Prof. Guozhu Dong is a visiting professor of the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received the PhD degree from the University of Southern California in 1988. He is a professor emeritus at Wright State University and he also taught at the University of Melbourne. His main research interests are databases, data mining, machine learning, and bioinformatics. He has published over 140 articles in journals and conferences, published four books, holds four US patents, and was a recipient of the Best Paper Award from IEEE ICDM 2005. Representative research includes results on first-order incremental maintenance of transitive closure and shortest paths, expressive power of first-order queries with arithmetic constraints, mining of emerging/contrast patterns, and the use of mined emerging/contrast patterns for a wide range of data analytic tasks such as classification, clustering, regression, outlier detection, and bioinformatics. He has served on the program committees of IEEE ICDE, IEEE ICDM, ICDT, ACM PODS, ACM SIGKDD, and VLDB. He was a program committee co-chair of several international conferences. His research has been funded by US NSF, AFRL, ARC, and private corporations. He was a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM.