Meet the Volume Editors

Jucheng Yang is a Distinguished Professor at the College of Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China. He was a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the University of Surrey, UK. He has published more than 140 papers in international journals and conferences. He has served as an associate editor of *Frontiers in Plant Science and Journal of Information Security and Applications* and a

reviewer of international journals such as *IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics*, and *IEEE Communications Magazine*. He has served as the chairman of eight conferences and a member of the program committees of more than thirty conferences. His research interests include biometrics, image processing, neural networks, and information security.

Yarui Chen is a professor at the College of Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China. She received her BS from Hebei University of Technology, China, and an MS and Ph.D. from Tianjin University, China. She has published more than twenty papers in journals and conferences. She has served as a reviewer of international journals such as *Neurocomputing*, *KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems*, *Journal of Com-*

*puter Research and Development*, and others. Dr. Chen has three Chinese biometric patents to her credit. Her research interests include machine learning, neural networks, probabilistic inference, and approximate inference.

Tingting Zhao is an Associate Professor in the College of Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, China. She obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2014. She has authored one book and published more than fifty papers in leading international journals and conferences on machine learning, including neural computation, neural networks and neural information processing systems. She

holds more than ten patents. She has served as a program member of top conferences. She has wide research interests, including machine learning and data mining, with a focus on reinforcement learning, robot control, and intelligence systems.

Yuan Wang is an Associate Professor at the College of Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Application Technology at Nankai University, Tianjin, China. She attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, as a visiting scholar in 2014–2015. Her research interests include machine learning, pattern recognition, natural language processing, data mining,

and smart cities. She has hosted and participated in several research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation. Dr. Wang has published more than seventy

papers in refereed proceedings and journals. She won first place in the shared task of "Sentiment Classification with Deep Learning" at the Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC) conference in 2014.

Xuran Pan is currently a lecturer in the College of Artificial Intelligence, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, China. She received a Ph.D. in Electronic Science and Technology from Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, China, in 2020. Her research interests include image processing, machine learning, deep learning, and their applications in earth vision.

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