Hocine Cherifi received the Ph.D. degree from the National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble, in 1984. He has been a Professor of computer science at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France, since 1999. Prior to moving to Dijon, he held faculty positions at the University of Rouen Normandy and Jean Monnet University, France. He has held visiting positions at Yonsei University, South Korea, The University of Western Australia, Australia, the National Pingtung University, Taiwan, and Galatasaray University, Turkey. He has published more than 200 scientific papers in international refereed journals and conference proceedings. His recent research interests include computer vision and complex networks. He has held leading positions in more than 15 international conference organizations (the General Chair and the Program Chair), and he has served in more than 100 program committees. He is the Founder of the International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications. Currently, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Computational Social Networks, PLOS One, IEEE Access, Journal of Imaging, Complex Systems, Quality and Quantity, and Scientific Reports. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Applied Network Science journal.