Dr. Guan Yue Hong is an associate professor of Computer Science and is currently working at Western Michigan University. She received her Ph.D. in software engineering from the National University of Singapore. After graduation, she began her professional career as a software engineer with Motorola’s Global Software Division, where she worked on the development and testing of cutting-edge software products. She also taught at Motorola University as an instructor in software coding and testing best practices, telecommunication network programming, and systems integration. She received several performance awards and was promoted to senior software engineer. After leaving Motorola, she became a tenured faculty member for ten years at Massey University and Unitec Institute of Technology in New Zealand. During that time, she received three academic promotions in recognition of her outstanding contributions. She later received a second master’s degree in management and finance from Harvard University. Her research interests mainly include reliable and trustworthy AI, novel machine learning paradigms, and smart cyber-physical--human systems. She has published over 70 papers in leading international journals and conferences, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, and IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. Her published papers have attracted over a thousand scientific citations.