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Xian-Sheng Hua received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 1996 and 2001, respectively, both in applied mathematics. Since 2001, he has been with Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, where he is currently a Lead Researcher with the media computing group. His current research interests are in the areas of video content analysis, multimedia search, management, authoring, sharing, mining, advertising and mobile multimedia computing. He has authored or co-authored more than 160 publications in these areas and has more than 50 filed patents or pending applications. He is now an adjunct professor of University of Science and Technology of China, and serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Editorial Board Member of Advances in Multimedia and Multimedia Tools and Applications, and editor of Scholarpedia (Multimedia Category). He also has successfully served or is serving as vice program chair (VCIP 2005), workshop organizers (workshops of ICME 2009/2010, ICDM 2009 and ACM Multimedia 2010), demonstration chairs, tutorial chairs, special session chairs, senior TPC members (ACM Multimedia and ACM KDD) and PC members of a large number of international conferences. Dr. Hua won the Best Paper Award and Best Demonstration Award in ACM Multimedia 2007, Best Poster Award in 2008 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Best Student Paper Award in ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2009, and Best Paper Award in International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling 2010. He also won 2008 MIT Technology Review TR35 Young Innovator Award, and named as one of the "Business Elites of People under 40 to Watch'' by Global Entrepreneur.