Yunlong Lu received a B.S. degree in applied mathematics from Beihua University, Jilin, China, in 2002, an M.S. degree in operational research and cybernetics from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2006, and a Ph.D. degree in computational mathematics from the Dalian University of Technology, China, in 2019. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beihua University. His research interests include numerical optimization and machine learning.