The ACM SIGSPATIAL China has announced the results of its prestigious 2025 "Rising Star Scholar in Spatial Data Intelligence" selection.

We are proud to report that Professor Tsz Nam Chan, a Distinguished Professor in our Big Data Institute, has been selected for this honor. Professor Chan is one of only ten scholars nationwide to receive this esteemed recognition this year.

Prof. Tsz Nam Chan (Edison) is currently a distinguished professor in the Shenzhen University (SZU). He is a NSF Excellent Young Scientist and an IEEE senior member. He is a data engineering researcher (for handling the efficiency issues in big data settings). He published ~40 research papers in prestigious conferences and journals (CCF: A, top ranking in Google scholar and Microsoft) in both data engineering and data mining areas, including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SIGKDD, and TKDE. Prior to joining the SZU, he worked as a research assistant professor in HKBU from Sep 2020 to Aug 2023 and a postdoctoral researcher in The University of Hong Kong (HKU) from Sep 2018 to Aug 2020. He received the PhD degree in computing and the BEng degree in electronic and information engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2019 and 2014, respectively.