Lianyong Qi Editor

Professor Yonghong Zhang, is a full professor, doctoral supervisor, currently serving as a professor and the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Wuxi College. His main research areas include precision instruments and machinery, pattern recognition and intelligent systems, remote sensing information processing, and higher education teaching management and research. He has led more than 10 projects, including major research plans of the National Natural Science Foundation, international cooperation and exchange projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, and general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation and the Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Support Program. He has published over 40 academic papers in core and above journals, with over 20 indexed in SCI/EI. He has received a first-class national award for higher education teaching achievements and two provincial and ministerial awards for teaching and research achievements. He has been honored as a young academic leader in the Jiangsu Blue Project and has received high-level talent support as part of Jiangsu Province's "Six Talent Peaks" program.

Lianyong Qi (IEEE Senior Member), received his Ph.D degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China. In 2010, he visited the Department of Information and Communication Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Now, he is a professor of the College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), China. Before joining UPC, he is a professor of Qufu Normal University, China. His research interests include big data and recommender systems. He has published over 100 research papers in international journals (e.g., IEEE JSAC, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TFS, IEEE TSC, IEEE/ACM TCBB, IEEE TCC, IEEE TBD, IEEE TII, IEEE T-ITS, IEEE TCSS, IEEE TNSE, ACM TOMM, ACM TOSN, ACM TOIT, ACM TIST, etc) and international conferences (e.g., SIGIR, ICWS, ICSOC), including multiple Best/Outstanding Paper Awards. He is currently serving as the managing editor of Journal of Organizational and End User Computing (SCI/SSCI), editorial board of International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Nature Scientific Reports, etc. He has served as chairs of over ten international conferences, PC members of well-known conferences (including WWW, AAAI, IJCAI, CIKM, ECML-PKDD, ICSOC, ICWS, etc), and guest editors of reputable journals including IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, etc. He is a recipient of CCF-Service Computing Committee-Young Talent Award.

Liu Qi is a professor,doctoral supervisor and Vice Director of School of Software, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology. He holds the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF) and is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the United Kingdom, and a member of the China Computer Federation (CCF) and the Computer Education Committee of the Jiangsu Computer Society. He has published more than 80 papers in high-level journals and international conferences both domestically and internationally. Liu Qi holds over 10 publicly disclosed invention patents, with 4 of them authorized and transferred. Additionally, he has been granted 5 utility model patents. According to Google Scholar, his papers have been cited over 6200 times, with an H-index of 38 and an i10 index of 96.

Guangqiang Yin, male, born in November 1982 in China, is a researcher and doctoral supervisor of the School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology, and a national leader of high-level professionals in Shenzhen. Since 2016, he has worked as the director of the Public Security Technology Research Center of the University of Electronic Science and Technology and the director of the Sichuan Provincial Police Informatization Equipment Engineering Laboratory. He is now a member of the Standardization Technical Committee of Computer and Information Processing of the Ministry of Public Security, a member of the Police Information Communication and Information Security Technology Professional Group of the Science and Technology Award Review Committee of the Ministry of Public Security, and a member of the Intelligent Command and Dispatch Professional Committee of the Chinese Command and Control Society.

Prof X. Liu received his PhD in Computer Science from De Montfort University and joined Napier in 1999. He is currently leading the Software Systems research group in the SoC, Edinburgh Napier University. He was the director of Centre for Information & Software Systems. Prof Liu is an active researcher in software engineering with internationally excellent reputation and leading expertise, focusing on its emerging themes including pervasive systems (Internet of Things), services-oriented architecture, evolution of cloud services, and intelligence-driven software engineering. He has meanwhile a successful track record of teaching in a number of software engineering courses which are widely informed by his research activities. He has led 10 externally funded projects as the PI, and published over 120 papers in established international journals and conferences, 5 book chapters and 3 research handbooks. He is the inventor of 1 patent registered in UK and USA and the founder of a spin-out company. He has been the chair, co-chair or PC member of a number of IEEE and IASTED International Conferences. He is the editorial board member of 4 international journals and editor of 3 research books and 2 journals special issues. He is a senior member of IEEE Society and a member of British Computer Society.