​X. Sean Wang is Professor and Dean at the School of Computer Science at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.  He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 1992. Before joining Fudan University in 2011, he was the Dorothean Chair Professor in Computer Science at the University of Vermont. During 2009-2011, he also served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. He has published widely in the general area of databases and information security and was a recipient of the US National Science Foundation Research Initiation and CAREER awards. His research interests include database systems, information security, data mining, and sensor data processing. In the research community, he served as the general chair of IEEE ICDE 2011 held in Washington DC and ACM CIKM2014 in Shanghai, and in various other roles for international conferences and journals. He’s a current a Chief Editor for the Springer Journal of Data Science and Engineering and an associate editor of Geoinformatica, the Springer WWW journal, and a number of Chinese language technical journals. He was a past associate editor of IEEE TKDE and Springer KAIS Journal. He’s also a current member of the IEEE ICDE Steering Committee and past Chair of WAIM Steering Committee.