Joshua Zhexue Huang, Distinguished Professor

Director of Big Data Institute, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.

Dr. Joshua Zhexue Huang is a distinguished professor at College of Computer Science and Software Engineering and the founding director of Big Data Institute of Shenzhen University. Prof. Huang is known for his contributions to the development of a series of k-means type clustering algorithms in data mining, such as k-modes, fuzzy k-modes, k-prototypes and w-k-means, which are widely cited and used, and some of which have been included in commercial software. He has extensive industry expertise in business intelligence, data mining and big data analysis. He has been involved in numerous consulting projects in Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China. Dr Huang received his PhD degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He has published over 250 research papers in conferences and journals with over 10000 citations. In 2006, he received the first PAKDD Most Influential Paper Award. He has served as conference and program chairs of several national and international conferences in the areas of data mining and big data. He is recognized as a scientist of Career Scientific Impact in Stanford University World’s top 2% scientists list.