Jianping Yin received the Ph.D. degree from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), China in 1990. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Nanjing University, China from December, 1990 to January, 1993, and is currently a Distinguished Professor with the Dongguan University of Technology, China. His research interests include design and analysis of algorithm, pattern recognition and machine learning. He was a recipient of the National Famous Teacher, National Excellence Teacher, National Excellence Young Teacher in College and University, National Excellence Dissertation’ Supervisor, National Excellence Education Achievement of China in 2016, 2009, 1998, 2007, 2009 respectively. He was the chairman of the Theoretical Computer Science Technical Committee of the China Computer Federation, the member of the Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Technical Committee of the China Computer Federation, and is currently the deputy director of Steering Committee on the teaching of computer courses in university, China. He served as the Program Committee co-chair of FAW 2008, Steering Committee co-chair of FAW 2009, General Chair of MDAI 2011, Publicity chair of ELM2013, Social Network Chair of SIGKDD2015, Program Committee senior member of IJCAI 2017, Program Committee member of AAAI 2017, and Program Committee member of SIGCSE 2017 etc. He supervised dozens of excellent doctors and masters, and taught design and analysis of algorithm, the beauty of mathematics and the way of computation for undergraduate student, computational complexity, artificial intelligence for Ph.D. student. He was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China and the National Science Foundation of China, was the chief editor of the branch of theoretical computer science in the Chinese Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology (third edition), and one of the translators of Introduction to Algorithm (third edition) and Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (third edition). He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers, including IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-KDE, IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-NNLS, IEEE T-C, IEEE T-CSVT, IEEE T-WC, PR, IF, TOSN, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, ACM MM, and MICCAI. ( https://dblp.org/pers/y/Yin:Jianping.html )

Email: jpyin@dgut.edu.cn