Dr. JingTao Yao received the Ph.D. degree from the National University 
of Singapore, Singapore. He is currently a Professor with the 
Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, SK, 
Canada. He taught in the Department of Information Systems, Massey 
University, Palmerston North, New Zealand; the Department of 
Information Systems, National University of Singapore, Singapore; and 
the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi?an Jiaotong 
University, Xi?an, China.

Dr. Yao serves as a member of Editorial Boards of various 
international journals and Guest Editor of Neurocomputing, the 
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, the International 
Journal on Multi-Sensor, Multi-Source Information Fusion, and, 
Transaction of Rough Sets, and Fundamenta Informaticae. He was an 
Elected Chair of Steering Committee and Fellow of the International 
Rough Set Society. He has been a Chair or a member of Program 
Committee of numerous international conferences and has edited many 
volumes of conference proceedings.

His research interests include granular computing, rough sets, data 
mining, electronic commerce, Web intelligence, and Web-based support 
systems. He has over 100 papers in these areas and received over 3000 
citations according to Google Scholar.