Dr. Xiang Ao is an Associate Professor in the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(ICT, CAS). Before joining ICT, he received Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Computing Technology, CAS in 2015 and B.S. degree in Computer Science from Zhejiang University in 2010. His research interests include algorithms and models for financial-related data mining tasks. He has authored more than 20 referred publications at prestigious international conferences and journals like IEEE TKDE, ACM TIST, WWW, SIGIR, ICDE, IJCAI, and has served as PC members over top tier international conferences such as IJCAI18/19, AAAI19, etc. Currently, he is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the CCF-Tencent Rhino-Bird Young Faculty Open Research Fund, the Ant Financial Science Funds, and the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS, etc.