Mohammed J. Zaki is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at RPI. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Rochester in 1998. His research interests focus on developing novel data mining techniques, especially in bioinformatics. He has published over 170 papers on data mining, co-edited 15 books and proceedings (including "Data Mining in Bioinformatics, Springer-London, 2005), served as guest-editor for several journals, served on the program committees of major international conferences, and co-chaired many workshops (BIOKDD, HPDM, DMKD, etc.) in data mining and bioinformatics. He is currently an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, an action editor for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: An Int'l Journal, and on the editorial boards of several other journals. He is the PC co-chair for SDM'08 and SIGKDD'09. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2001 and the Department of Energy Early Career Principal Investigator Award in 2002. He also received the ACM Recognition of Service Award in 2003, and an IEEE Certificate of Appreciation in 2005.