Dr. Bin Jiang received his master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Dortmund/Germany in 1986. In 1992, he received his doctorate in Computer Science from ETH Zurich/Switzerland. During the research period, two of his publications in the field of database management systems were awarded as the best student papers at the IEEE Conference on Data Engineering in 1990 and 1992. Afterward, he worked for several major Swiss banks and insurance companies, and with one of the largest international data warehousing consulting firms as a system engineer, software developer and application analyst in the early years, and then as a senior data warehouse consultant and architect for more than twenty years. Last but not least, Dr. Jiang is one of the first Certified Teradata Masters of the world and a Distinguished Professor of China Three Gorges University.