Philip S. Yu is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago and also holds the Wexler Chair in Information Technology.   Dr. Yu spent most of his career at IBM, where he was manager of the Software Tools and Techniques group at the Watson Research Center. His research interest is on big data, including data mining, data stream, database and privacy. He has published more than 730 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He holds or has applied for more than 250 US patents. Dr. Yu is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. Dr. Yu received the B.S. Degree in E.E. from National Taiwan University, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in E.E. from Stanford University, and the M.B.A. degree from New York University.