2012年4月19日，美国罗格斯大学熊辉教授应科学数据中心的邀请来中心进行学术交流，并进行了题为“What’s Special about Mobile Recommender Systems”的学术报告，内容主要包括移动推荐系统目前面对的挑战、特点和他们的研究结果，大家获益匪浅。

报告结束后，科学数据中心主任黎建辉博士就中心的发展方向、人才引进和科研成果与熊辉教授交换了看法。周园春博士介绍了中心的定位、主要科研方向、优势和特长，并就进一步研究合作和学生交换培养达成了初步共识。薛正华博士介绍了中心在应对大数据处理方面的一些经验和解决方案，熊辉教授给予了高度评价，认为很有特色。

Dr. Hui Xiong is currently an Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of the Management Science and Information Systems Department at the Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where he received a two-year early promotion/tenure (2009), the Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence (2009), the ICDM-2011 Best Research Paper Award (2011), the Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2007) and the Junior Faculty Research Award (2008) at Rutgers Business School. Dr. Xiong received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota (UMN), USA, in 2005, the B.E. degree in Automation from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, and the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. His general area of research is data and knowledge engineering, with a focus on developing effective and efficient data analysis techniques for emerging data intensive applications. He has published prolifically in refereed journals and conference proceedings (3 books, 40+ journal papers, and 60+ conference papers). He is the co-Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of GIS (Springer, 2007) and an Associate Editor of the Knowledge and Information Systems journal. He has served regularly on the organization and program committees of numerous conferences, including as a Program Co-Chair of the Industrial and Government Track for the 18th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). He is a senior member of the ACM and the IEEE