Dr. Xintao Wu is an Associate Professor of Software and Information Systems Department at UNC Charlotte. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science Department at UNC Charlotte from August 2001 to June 2007.  His major research interests include data mining and knowledge discovery, data privacy and security, and social network analysis. His most recent research work has been to develop privacy preserving data mining techniques for both categorical and numerical data in traditional databases and linked data in social networks.  His research has been consistently supported by NSF. 

Dr. Wu leads Data Privacy Research Lab and is a member of KDD lab, Bioinformatics center, and Charlotte Visualization Center. 

Dr. Wu is an editor of Springer's Journal of Intelligent Information Systems and Spanish Higher Research Council's Transaction on Data Privacy, and serves on program committees of top international conferences, including ACM KDD, IEEE ICDM, SIAM SDM, PKDD, and PAKDD. Dr. Wu is a recipient of NSF CAREER Award, Junior Faculty Research Grants from UNC Charlotte, and Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award from College of Computing and Informatics.  

Dr. Wu got his Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University in August 2001. He received his BS degree in Information Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1994, an ME degree in Computer Engineering from the Chinese Academy of Space Technology in 1997.