Meng Xiaofeng is a full professor at School of Information, Renmin University of China. He received a B.S. degree from Hebei University, M.S. degree from Remin University of China , Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, all in computer science. He is currently the Vice Dean of School of Information and the Head of Department of Computer Science. He is the Secretary General of Database Society of the China Computer Federation (CCF DBS), which is the largest national academic organization in China established in 1977. He has held visiting research position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong( 1994, 1995,1998), City University of Hong Kong (1997), visiting scientist at the National University of Singapore (2003), and visiting professor at Prism Lab of Versailles University, Paris(2004).

His research interests include query processing, natural language interface, web data extraction, native XML databases, mobile data management. He has published over 100 papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings.

He has served on the program committee SIGMOM, ICDE, ER, DASFAA, MDM, DEXA, WISE, WAIM, etc. and as a reviewer to journals including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He was the Program Chair for The Ninth International Conference on Mobile Data management(MDM2008), The Third International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM2002), Beijing, and The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2005), Beijing; Publicity Chair for ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2006), Chicago, and The Seventh International Conference on Web-Age Information Management(WAIM2006), Hong Kong; Publication Chair for The 10th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2005) , Beijing.