Lina Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Beijing University, China, in 1998. From 1999 to 2002, she was a research scientist at the Center for the Management of Information, University of Arizona. Her research interests center around text mining, deception detection, machine translation, and ontology learning. Her work has been accepted and/or published in journals such as Communications of the ACM, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Group Decision and Negotiation, Knowledge and Information Systems, Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Journal of Advanced Software Research, and Computers in Human Behavior. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Database Management, and is a referee for the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, and among others.