Authors
Dr. Bin Li received a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Huazhong Univer-
sity of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, and a bachelor’s degree in economics
from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2006. He earned a PhD degree from the
School of Computer Engineering of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in
2013. Hecompletedthe CFAProgram in 2013. Heiscurrently an associate professorof
finance at the Economics and Management School of Wuhan University. Dr. Li was a
postdoctoral research fellow at the Nanyang Business School of Nanyang Technologi-
cal University. His research interests are computational finance and machine learning.
He has published several academic papers in premier conferences and journals.
Dr. Steven C.H. Hoi received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2002, and bothhismaster’s and PhD degreesin
computer science and engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong, China, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He is currently an associate professor in
the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
Prior to joining SMU, he was a tenured associate professor in the School of Computer
Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests
are machine learning and data mining and their applications to tackle real-world big
data challenges across varied domains, including computational finance, multimedia
information retrieval, social media, web search and data mining, computer vision and
pattern recognition, and so on. Dr. Hoi has published more than 150 referred arti-
cles in premier international journals and conferences. As an active researcher in his
research communities, he has served as general co-chair forACM SIGMMWorkshops
on Social Media (WSM’09-11), program co-chair for Asian Conference on Machine
Learning (ACML’12), editor for Social Media Modeling and Computing, guest edi-
tor for journals such as Machine Learning and ACM TIST, associate editor-in-chief
of Neurocomputing, associate editor for several reputable journals, area chair/senior
PC member for conferences, including ACM Multimedia 2012 and ACML’11–’15,
technical PC member for many international conferences, and referee for top journals
and magazines. He has often been invited for external grant review by worldwide
funding agencies, including the US NSF funding agency, Hong Kong RGC funding
agency, and so on. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of AAAI and ACM.
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