Xiaoru Yuan is a tenured faculty member in the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science. He received Bachelor degrees in chemistry and law from Peking University, China, in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science in 2006, from the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities. His primary research interests are in the field of scientific visualization, information visualization and visual analytics. He has co-authored over 60 technical papers in IEEE Visualization, IEEE Information Visualization, IEEE TVCG, IEEE EuroVis, IEEE PacificVis and other major international visualization conference and journals. His co-authored work on high dynamic range volume visualization received Best Application Paper Award at the IEEE Visualization 2005 conference. He and his student team won awards over 7 times in IEEE VAST Challenges. He served on the program committees of IEEE VIS, EuroVis, and IEEE PacificVis. He was organization co-chair of IEEE PacificVis 2009, program chair of VINCI 2010, and poster chair of IEEE VIS 2015/2016 and paper chair of IEEE VIS 2017and PacificVis 2015. He founded ChinaVis conference in 2014. He also serves on the editorial board of CCF journal of CAD&CG，Springer Journal of Visualization, and as guest editor of IEEE TVCG and IEEE CG&A. see http://vis.pku.edu.cn/wiki
