Prof. Zeshui Xu, Sichuan University, China

Bio: Zeshui Xu received the Ph.D. degree in management science and engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2003. From October 2005 to December 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, China. He was a Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chang Jiang Scholar of the Ministry of Education of China. He is currently a Chair Professor with Sichuan University, Chengdu. He has been elected as the member of AE, EASA, and IASCYS, the Distinguished Fellow of IETI, the Fellow of IEEE, IFSA, RSA, IET, ORS, BCS, IAAM, AAIA, AIIA, ACIS and VEBLEO. He is ranked 30th in 2019 single year scientific impact and 162th in career scientific impact among World’s top 100,000 Scientists, and ranked 40th among the World’s best scientists in the arena of Computer Science in 2023. He has published 21 monographs by Springer and contributed more than 900 SCI/SSCI articles to professional journals. He is among the world’s top 1% most highly cited researchers with more than 92,000 citations in Google Scholar, his h-index is 150. He is currently the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Information Sciences, Artificial Intelligence Review, Journal of the Operational Research, Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, etc. His current research interests include Decision-making theory and methodology, optimization algorithms, information fusion, and big data analytics.