Feida Zhu is an assistant professor at the School of Information Systems of Singapore Management University (SMU). He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2009 and his B.Sc. in Computer Science from Fudan University, China, in 2001. His current research interests include large-scale data mining, graph/network mining and social network analysis. His research on large-scale frequent pattern mining has won the Best Student Paper Awards at 2007 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) and 2007 Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD). He has founded the Pinnacle Lab a joint lab with China Ping An Insurance Group to focus on social media mining and analysis for finance industry.