Shi Qiang Liu is currently a professor with the title of Min-Jiang Scholar at the School of Economics and Management, Fuzhou University, China. He received the PhD degree in Operations Research from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia. He was working, in Australia for over 12 years, as a Senior Research Scientist with CRC ORE and as a Research Fellow at QUT. He has published over 60 refereed papers, most in leading journals including Transportation Science, etc. He also has solid background in scheduling theory and applications, metaheuristics, and combinatorial optimization.