Yidong Chen was born in Xiamen, Fujian, China, in 1977. He received the Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, in 2008. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Informatics, Xiamen University. He is the author of more than 50 articles and one invention. His research interests include machine translation, question answering, and natural language processing (NLP) applications. Dr. Chen received the third prize of the Science and Technology Award of Fujian Province, in 2005, the second prize for the Outstanding Academic Papers of Natural Sciences of Fujian Province, in 2012, the first prize for the Qian-Weichang Chinese Information Processing Award, in 2016, and the first prize of the Science and TechnologyAward of the Tibet Autonomous Region, in 2018. He acts as the Secretary-General of the Fujian Association for Artificial Intelligence, China, and is a reviewer of many top conferences in the area of NLP, such as Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) and International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).