Weiping Ding (M’16-SM’19) received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2013. From 2014 to 2015, he is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Brain Research Center, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. In 2016, He was a Visiting Scholar at National University of Singapore, Singapore. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Visiting Professor at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is a Full Professor with the School of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, Nantong, China, and also the supervisor of Ph.D postgraduate by the Faculty of Data Science at City University of Macau, China. His main research directions involve deep neural networks, multimodal machine learning, and medical images analysis. He ranked within the top 2% Ranking of Scientists in the World by Stanford University (2020-2023). He has published over 250 articles, including over 100 IEEE Transactions papers. His eighteen authored/co-authored papers have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers. He has co-authored four books. He has holds 28 approved invention patents, including two U.S. patents and one Australian patent. He serves as an Associate Editor/Editorial Board member of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Information Fusion, Information Sciences, Neurocomputing, Applied Soft Computing. He is the Leading Guest Editor of Special Issues in several prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and Information Fusion. Now he is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of both Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Systems and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Advances.