Bio

Dr. Xianrong (Shawn) Zheng is an Associate Professor of Information Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States, and an Adjunct Professor of Financial Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China. Also, he is the Founding Director of the Financial Computing Laboratory, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 2014. His research interests are AI, Cloud Computing, and FinTech. Dr. Zheng is a Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and China Computer Federation (CCF). He is a Technical Program Committee Member of ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ACM ICAIF) and IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS). Also, he is the Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Financial Technologies (FinTech) in Finance and Economics" for Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM), an Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Data Science (IJDS), and the Editor-in-Chief of the inaugural Journal of Data Science Research (JDSR). Contact him please by email xrzheng AT ustc DOT edu.