Dr. Qin Chen is currently working as a Research Associate at the China Aerodynamic Research and Development Center. He received his Ph.D. from the Aerospace Science and Technology School of the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha in 2010. His engineering experience includes aerodynamic design and commissioning of large low-speed and continuous transonic wind tunnels, and his research interests lie in the industrial application of evolutionary computation and surrogate-model-assisted evolutionary algorithms, especially in the design of wind tunnel critical components.