Benyou Jia has been a senior engineer and a professor at the Hydraulic Engineering Department of Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute since 2018. He earned his PhD from the Institute of Water Resources of Hohai University from September 2010 to June 2016, and a post-doctoral position in the Department of Hydraulic Engineering of Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute from July 2016 to July 2018. His skills and expertise include optimization, optimization algorithms, mathematical programming, evolutionary computation, optimization modeling, differential evolution, particle swarm optimization, and simulation.