Rong Qu (Senior Member, IEEE) received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K., in 2002. She is a professor with the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on evolutionary algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems, with the support of modeling and learning across operational research and artificial intelligence. Her research has been applied to logistics transport scheduling, personnel scheduling, and timetabling problems.