Dr. Xiaohu Shi is a professor at the College of Software, at Jilin University. From 2009 to 2010, he went to the University of Missouri, Department of Computer Science, as a visitor. He also serves as a director of the Computational Systems Biology Branch of the China Operations Research Society, a member of the Knowledge Engineering and Distributed Intelligence Professional Committee of the Artificial Intelligence Society, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Bioinformatics and Intelligent Control. He won the second prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education in 2014, the first prize of the National Commercial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2010, the first prize of the Jilin Province Science and Technology Progress Award in 2007, and other awards. He has published more than 80 journal and conference papers. His research interests include neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and bioinformatics.