
Prof. Xiaodong
LI, IEEE Fellow,
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Xiaodong Li
(M’03-SM’07-Fellow’20) received his B.Sc. degree from Xidian University,
Xi'an, China, and Ph.D. degree in information science from University of
Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, respectively. He is a Professor with the
School of Science (Computer Science and Software Engineering), RMIT
University, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include machine
learning, evolutionary computation, neural networks, data analytics,
multiobjective optimization, multimodal optimization, and swarm
intelligence. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions
on Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence (Springer), and
International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research. He is a founding
member of IEEE CIS Task Force on Swarm Intelligence, a vice-chair of
IEEE Task Force on Multi-modal Optimization, and a former chair of IEEE
CIS Task Force on Large Scale Global Optimization. He is the recipient
of 2013 ACM SIGEVO Impact Award and 2017 IEEE CIS "IEEE Transactions on
Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award". He is an IEEE Fellow.

Prof. Yanan
Sun,
Sichuan University, China
Research Professor of
Sichuan University, Doctoral Supervisor, Sichuan Province Overseas
High-level Talents, Sichuan Province Scientific and Technological
Innovation Talents. In June 2017, he graduated from the School of
Computer Science and Technology of Sichuan University and received his
Doctor of Engineering degree. From August 2015 to February 2017, he was
jointly trained as a state-sponsored doctor in Oklahoma State
University, USA. From July 2017 to March 2019, he worked at Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand, as the head of the evolutionary
deep learning in the field of artificial intelligence, the strategic
research direction of the university. At the end of March 2019, he was
introduced by Sichuan University as a Distinguished Research Fellow. His
research interests include machine learning, evolutionary computing,
intelligent optimization, and their applications (automated machine
learning, neural architecture search).

Prof.
Yiping Liu
Hunan University, China
Liu Yiping, Associate
Professor, Yuelu Scholar. He received his bachelor's and doctor's
degrees from China University of Mining and Technology in June 2012 and
December 2017, respectively. From August 2016 to September 2017,
jointly trained in Oklahoma State University, USA. From January 2018 to
March 2020, he was the Distinguished Assistant Professor of Osaka
Prefectural University, Japan. He has been a visiting researcher at
Osaka Prefectural University since April 2020. In May 2020, joined the
School of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University. His
research interest including Computational Intelligence and its
Applications, Evolutionary Computation, Optimization, Machine Learning.

Assoc. Prof. Hui
Zhang
Wuhan University of Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Hui Zhang
received his post-doctoral degree from the University of Alberta,
Canada. He graduated from Wuhan University of Technology in 2006 with a
double bachelor's degree in traffic Engineering and finance. In 2009, he
graduated from Intelligent Transportation System Research Center of
Wuhan University of Technology with a master's degree in Intelligent
Transportation Engineering. In 2013, he graduated from the Intelligent
Transportation System Research Center of Wuhan University of Technology
with a doctorate degree in intelligent Transportation Engineering. From
2013 to 2015, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of
Alberta, Canada. He was appointed as an assistant Researcher in Wuhan
University of Technology in 2016 and an Associate Researcher (associate
professor) in September 2017. His research interests include
vehicle-road collaboration, traffic simulation, digital city, and big
data.