Mingjing Du, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Jiangsu Normal University. He earned his doctorate in computer science from China University of Mining and Technology. Dr. Du was honored as an “Excellent Young Teacher” under the Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Province in 2025. He serves on the editorial board of Information Processing & Management and is a peer reviewer for IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, Pattern Recognition, World Wide Web, and Information Sciences. His main research contributions lie in cluster analysis, granular computing, and time-series analysis, and his academic work has been published in high-impact journals such as IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TFS, Information Fusion, Information Sciences and so on.