Prof. Ning Zhong's research interests include brain informatics, web intelligence, and intelligent information systems. As a key member of cognitive computing lab, he is responsible for conducting research on systematic investigations for complex brain science problems and developing new information technologies for supporting systematic brain science studies.

Dr. Zhong is currently head of the Knowledge Information Systems Laboratory and a Professor in the Department of Life Science and Informatics at Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan. He is also director and an adjunct professor in the International WIC Institute, Beijing University of Technology. Dr. Zhong received the Ph.D. degree in the interdisciplinary course on advanced science and technology from the University of Tokyo. He has more than 200 journal and conference publications and 20 books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Web Intelligence and Agent Systems and serves as associate editor/editorial board for several international journals and book series. He is the co-chair of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), chair of IEEE-CIS Task Force on Brain Informatics. He has served as chair of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), associate editor of TKDE, ICDM’02 (conference chair), ICDM’06 (program chair), WI-IAT’03 (conference chair), WI-IAT’04 (program chair), IJCAI’03 (advisory committee member), and Brain Informatics 2009 (program chair). He was awarded IEEE TCII/ICDM Outstanding Service Award in 2004, and Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) Most Influential Paper Award (1999-2008).