Biographical sketches of authors

Zhong Su IBM Research Division, China Research Lab, 2/F HaoHai building, No. 7, 5th Street, ShangDi, Beijing (suzhong@cn.ibm.com). Dr. Su is a research staff member at the IBM China Research lab. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science at Tsinghua University in 2002. He has worked on a wide range of software systems. Currently, he leads a project on business intelligence and related solutions in the area of banking and telecommunications.

Jianmin Jiang IBM Research Division, China Research Lab, 2/F HaoHai building, No. 7, 5th Street, ShangDi, Beijing (jiangjm@cn.ibm.com). Dr. Jiang is a research staff member at the IBM China Research Lab. He received his Ph.D. degree in computational mathematics at Tsinghua University in 1997. He has worked on natural language processing and developed an English-Chinese translation engine. His current research interests are text mining and information retrieval.

Tao Liu IBM Research Division, China Research Lab, 2/F HaoHai building, No. 7, 5th Street, ShangDi, Beijing (liutao@cn.ibm.com). Mr. Liu is a research and development engineer at the IBM China Research Lab. He received his master's degree in computer science and technology at Tsinghua University in 2003. He is currently working on design and development for the next generation of market intelligence portals.

Guo Tong Xie IBM Research Division, China Research Lab, No. 7, 5th Street, ShangDi, Beijing (xieguot@cn.ibm.com). Mr. Xie is a researcher in the information and knowledge team at the IBM China Research Lab. He obtained his B.Sc. degree in 2000 and a M.Sc. degree in 2003, both in computer science, from the Xi'an Jiao Tong University. Before joining IBM Research in 2003, he worked on distributed computing and e-business. His main research interests are in the application of semantic web technologies to information integration, business integration, and knowledge management. He is currently leading a group on business semantics research.

Yue Pan IBM Research Division, China Research Lab, 2/F HaoHai building, No. 5th Street, ShangDi, Beijing (panyue@cn.ibm.com). Dr. Pan is a research staff member at the IBM China Research lab and manages the information and knowledge team. He received his Ph.D. degree in automatic control at the Chinese Academy of Science in 1996. He has worked on a platform for Internet content selection, translingual search, text mining, and other software systems. Dr. Pan and his team are currently developing technologies to capture business semantics, and integrate, analyze, and visualize structured and unstructured information for business intelligence.