Hongcheng Li is an instructor at Kent State University. He worked with SPSS China as a consultant and Director of Marketing.  Formerly associate professor at Shanghai Finance University, he lectured  on predictive data analysis and statistical software.  He published three texts on data analysis, and two others  on Java programming in Chinese. Dr. Li also translated several  popular machine learning and R books into Chinese, including “R Cookbook”, “Data Mining with R: Learning with Case Studies”, “Advanced R” and “Machine Learning with R”.