Dr. Dong Dai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) at the University of Delaware. Before that, he was Assistant Professor at UNC Charlotte, Research Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, and Postdoctoral Researcher at both Texas Tech University and Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Dai earned his Doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Dr. Dong Dai leads the Data Intelligence Research Lab (DIRLab), a research group specializing in the co-design of data-intensive and intelligent systems.