Dr. Li-Shiang Tsay earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Information Technology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2003 and 2005, respectively.  Her primary research interest lies in Knowledge Discovery in Databases.  She is particularly interested in developing algorithms for extracting actionable knowledge from complex and diverse data sources.  Dr. Tsay’s research has been published in journals and books including Mining Complex Data, Foundations of Data Mining, Data Mining: Foundations and Practice, Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, Journal of Experimental, Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Fundamenta Informaticae Journal, and Decision Support Systems. Her research has also been presented at international conferences including IEA/AIE,  IEEE/ICDM/FDM, IEEE/ICDM/MCD, IEEE GrC, IEEE/WIC/ACM, IIS, ISMIS, NCM, RSKT, and SPIE.  She has served and is currently serving on the Program Committee of several international conferences, including ISMIS 2006, IRMA 2007, RSEISP 2007, RSKT 2008, ISMIS 2008,  RSCTC 2008, IEEE/ICDM/MCD 2008, ISMIS 2009, RSKT 2009, NCM 2009, NISS 2009, and AAIA 2009. She is the co-editor of “Advances in Intelligent Information Systems” in Springer’s Studies in Computational Intelligence book series. Dr. Tsay is Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management.  She is an Affiliate Member of the KDD Laboratory UNC – Charlotte since 2005. She enjoys teaching a wide variety of Information Technology/Computer Science courses using any relevant programming languages.  Her teaching interests include (but are not limited to) Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge-Based Systems, Web Intelligent Search, Heuristic Search, and Database Design and Management.  She was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hampton University from January 2006 to May 2007.  Dr. Tsay joined North Carolina A&T State University in August 2007 as an Assistant Professor of Electronics, Computer, and Information Technology and also serves as the program coordinator of the Information Technology Graduate program.  In addition, she is an Associate Graduate Faculty in the Indiana State University Consortium Ph.D. Degree Program in Technology Management.