Keun Ho Ryu is a Chair Professor at Chungbuk National University, Korea and Director of the Database and bioinformatics Laboratory as well as a Professor (research lecturer) at Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam and Director of the Data science Laboratory, and also Director of Research Institute of Bigsun Systems co. ltd. He received a BS degree from Soongsil University in 1976 and an MS and a Ph.D from Yonsei University, Korea, in 1980 and 1988 respectively. He worked not only at the University of Arizona as a post-doc and research scientist but also at ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), Korea. He served as a vice president of the Personalized Tumor Engineering Center. He has served on numerous international journal reviewers and program committees including the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), the Very Large Data Base (VLDB), and so on. He is a member of the IEEE life and the ACM since 1983. He has served on numerous program committees, including roles as the Demonstration Co-Chair for the VLDB, the Panel Co-Chair and the Tutorial Co-Chair for the APWeb, and the FITAT General Co-Chair. In 2008, he founded the FITAT International Group, to provide a professional community the opportunities, for publications, knowledge exchange, teaming, and cooperation. His research interests include spatio-temporal databases, data mining, deep learning, bioinformatics, and biomedical informatics.