Jiping Xu received B.S. and M.S. degrees in automation from the Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, in 2010. He has been an Associate Professor with the Beijing Technology and Business University since 2010. His current research interests include water environment evaluation and prediction, and big data analysis.