YAPING REN received a B.S. degree in communications and transportation engineering from Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, China in 2014; an M.S. degree from the Transportation College, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China in 2016; and a Ph.D. degree from the School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China in 2019. From September 2017 to August 2019, he was a Visiting Scholar with Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Jinan University (Zhuhai Campus), Zhuhai, China. His research mainly focuses on industrial engineering, disassembly planning, transportation planning, decision making, and optimization methods.