Dr. Joshua Zhexue Huang, Academician of Russian Academy of Engineering, is a Distinguished Professor at the College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, and the Founding Director of the Big Data Institute. He currently serves as Chief Scientist of the ‌Greater Bay Area Ascend Computing Application Innovation Research Institute‌ at the Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (Shenzhen), and as Deputy Director of the ‌National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data System Computing Technology‌.

A pioneer in data mining, Prof. Huang is renowned for developing influential clustering algorithms, including ‌k-modes, fuzzy k-modes, k-prototypes, and w-k-means‌, which are widely cited and integrated into commercial software. His research spans ‌business intelligence, data mining, and big data analytics‌, with extensive industry consulting experience across Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China.

Dr. Huang holds a PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and has published over ‌400 research papers‌ with ‌20,000+ citations‌. In 2006, he received the inaugural ‌PAKDD Most Influential Paper Award‌. A globally recognized leader, he has chaired multiple international conferences and is listed among ‌Stanford University’s top 2% career-impact scientists‌ and ‌Elsevier’s Highly Cited Chinese Researchers‌.