Dr. Weiming Shen is a Professor at the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Until September 2019, he was a Principal Research Officer at National Research Council Canada. He also holds Adjunct Professor positions at Western University and McMaster University in Canada. He is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), Fellow of IEEE, and Professional Engineer of Ontario (PEO). He is an internationally-recognized expert on Agent-Based Collaborative Technologies and Applications. He has published several books and over 450 papers in scientific journals and international conferences in the related areas. His work has been cited over 13,000 times with an h-index of 55. He served as a member of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing; Editor-in-Chief of the IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing; and an Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member of over ten international journals (including IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering; IEEE Transaction on SMC: Systems; IEEE SMC Magazine; Advanced Engineering Informatics; Computational Intelligence; Intelligent Buildings International; Service Computing and Applications) and served as guest editor for several other international journals.