Yunjun Gao is now a Qiushi distinguished professor at the College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University (ZJU), Hangzhou, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from ZJU in 2008. Prior to joining ZJU in 2010, he was a research assistant or postdoctoral research fellow (scientist) or visiting professor/scholar in the City University of Hong Kong (CityU, China), Singapore Management University (SMU, Singapore), Simon Fraser University (SFU, Canada), Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore), and the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS, Australia), respectively. His primary research areas are Database, Big Data Management and Analytics, and AI Interaction with DB Technology. In particular, his current research interests include Data Governance, Data-Driven Machine Learning, Big Graph Data Management and Mining, Metric and Incomplete/Uncertain Data Management, Data Privacy Preservation, Geo-Social Data Processing, Data Pricing, Database Usability, and Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Databases. He has published more than 230 papers on several premium/leading journals including ACM Computing Surveys, TODS, VLDBJ, TKDE, TPDS, TOIS, TMC, TFS, TC, TKDD, TITS, TSMCA, and DKE, and various prestigious international conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SIGKDD, SIGIR, NeurIPS, IJCAI, AAAI, CVPR, EDBT, CIKM, and DASFAA. He is a senior member of the CCF and IEEE; a member of the ACM; a/an (young) editorial board member or associate editor of TKDE, JCST, FCS, DAPD, DSE, and Journal of Computer Research and Development (in Chinese); and a guest editor of FCS, WWWJ, IJDSN, and DSE. He is/was a referee/reviewer of several top/important journals such as TODS, VLDBJ, TKDE, TPDS, TMC, TKDD, TCC, DMKD, Information Sciences, Information Systems, GeoInformatica, KAIS, WWWJ, JCST, etc.; and he is/has serving/served as an organization committee (e.g., PC co-chairs, workshop co-chairs, publication chair, publicity co-chair, panel/tutorial co-chairs, area chair, etc.) or a (senior) program committee member for various top/important conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SIGKDD, SIGIR, IJCAI, AAAI, EDBT, CIKM, ICDCS, WSDM, DASFAA, SIGSPATIAL, SSTD, PAKDD, APWeb-WAIM, WISE, MDM, ER, etc. He was a Recipient/Winner of the Best Papers of DASFAA 2024 and ICDE 2022, the National Distinguished Young Scientist Fund Project (2020), the Special Prize of the Chinese Institute of Electronics Science and Technology Progress Award (2019), One of the Best Papers of ICDE 2019, the Best Paper Award of APWeb-WAIM 2018, the 2017 CCF Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (Supervisor, PhD student: Lu Chen), the 2016 Zhejiang Provincial Outstanding Master’s Dissertation Award (Supervisor, MS student: Huiyong Cui), the First Prize of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award (2016), the National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund Project (2015), the Nomination of the Best Paper Award of VLDB 2024, SIGMOD 2015, One of the Best Papers of ICDE 2015, and the First Prize of Zhejiang Province Science and Technology Award First (2011).