Fangqing Gu is an Associate Professor of School of Mathematics and Statistics at the Guangdong University of Technology. He received the B.S. degree from Changchun University, Jilin, China, in 2007 and the M.S. degree from Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2011. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2016. His research interests include data mining, machine learning and evolutionary computation.