Prof. Dr. Yanping Zhu is an associate professor at the School of Microelectronics and Control Engineering, Changzhou University, Changzhou, China. She completed her BEng, MEng, and PhD studies in electrical engineering at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 2001, 2004, and 2010, respectively. Her research interests include mathematical optimization, signal processing, and wireless sensor networks.