Graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics in 1984, and obtained his master’s and doctoral degrees in Systems Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1987 and 1991, respectively. He is among the first generation of systems engineering PhDs and postdocs in China. He has long been devoted to the research of systems science theory and large-scale engineering management, and proposed the "Three-dimensional Coordination, Dual-driven, and Collaborative Optimization" management philosophy for coal-based energy engineering, which has advanced both the theory and practice of energy engineering management in China.
He has served as President and Chairman of China Shenhua Energy Company Limited, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Shenhua Group, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of China Energy Investment Corporation, and Vice Governor of Shandong Province. He is currently Chairman of Shandong Association for Science and Technology, a delegate to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
His main research focuses on systems engineering theory and large-scale energy engineering management, and he has made significant contributions to solving complex engineering management problems using systems science.
Professor Teng has held positions as Professor of Computer Science at Boston University, Senior Scientist at Akamai Technologies, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics at MIT, among others. In 2008, he was awarded the Gödel Prize—the highest honor in theoretical computer science—for his outstanding work in the field of smoothed analysis of algorithms. In 2009, he received the Fulkerson Prize from the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Programming Society.
Professor Teng graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1985 with dual bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received his master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 1988, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. Before joining USC, he taught at Boston University and held research or teaching positions at Xerox PARC, MIT, NASA Ames Research Center, Intel, University of Minnesota, IBM Almaden Research Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Akamai Technologies, Microsoft Research Redmond, Microsoft Research New England, and Microsoft Research Asia. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Sloan Research Fellow.
Professor Xiong has long been engaged in research in data mining and artificial intelligence, publishing over 400 papers in top international journals and conferences such as Nature Communications, TKDE, TOIS, KDD, VLDB, AAAI, IJCAI, and NeurIPS. He previously served as a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and as Vice President of Baidu Research, overseeing five laboratories.
He has received numerous honors, including AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist, Fellow of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, Changjiang Chair Professor of the Ministry of Education of China, National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Category B, for overseas and Hong Kong/Macau scholars), the Grand Prize of the 2018 Ram Charan Management Practice Award by Harvard Business Review, the 2017 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, the ICDM 2011 Best Research Paper Award, and the AAAI 2021 Best Paper Award.