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 including IEEE TKDE, Geoinformatic, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), International Conference on Extending Database Technology(EDBT), ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management(CIKM)..

He has served on the program committee SIGMOM, ICDE, CIKM, MDM, DASFAA etc.. and as a reviewer to journals including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He was the General Vice Chair for 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2009), DB Vice Chair for ACM 18th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2009), Program Chair for The Ninth International Conference on Mobile Data management (MDM2008), Publicity Chair for ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD2006), and Publication Chair for The 10th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2005) .