Dezheng Zhang received a Ph.D. in control theory and its applications from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2002. Currently, he is a Professor and a Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China. He is also the Director of the Beijing Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering for Materials Science. His current research interests include big data mining, artificial intelligence technologies, and knowledge engineering.