JIANQIANG LI received his B.S. degree in Mechatronics from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 1996, and M.S. and PhD degrees in Control Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He worked as a researcher in Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway in 2004–2005. From 2005 to 2013, he worked in NEC Labs China as a researcher and the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, as a visiting scholar in 2009–2010. He joined Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China, in 2013 as Beijing Distinguished Professor. His research interests are in Petri nets, enterprise information systems, business processes, data mining, information retrieval, semantic web, privacy protection, and big data. He has over 40 publications including 1 book, 10+ journal papers, and 37 international patent applications (19 of them have been granted in China, the US, or Japan). He served as a PC member in multiple international conferences and organized the IEEE workshop on medical computing. He served as Guest Editor to organize a special issue on information technology for enhanced healthcare service in Computer in Industry.