Dr. SHEN Zhihong is a Professor in the big data department, CNIC, CAS. His current main research interests include graph database, big data processing, distributed computation and semantic web. Leading his team, Dr. SHEN developed a series of widely used big data software including VisualDB, PiFlow, Voovle, GraiphDB, etc. He also participates in the national key research projects, projects of informatization plan of CAS and customer-oriented applications.