Huiling Chen is currently an associate professor in the college of computer science and artificial intelligence at Wenzhou University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree at the department of computer science and technology at Jilin University, China. His present research interests center on evolutionary computation, machine learning, data mining, and their applications to medical diagnosis, bankruptcy prediction, and parameter extraction of the solar cell. With more than 15000 citations and an H-index of 69, he is ranked worldwide among top scientists for Computer Science & Electronics prepared by Guide2Research, the best portal for computer science research (https://guide2research.com/u/huiling-chen). He is currently serving as the editorial board member of Computers in Biology and Medicine, Scientific Reports, IEEE ACCESS, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. He is also a reviewer for many journals such as Applied Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Knowledge-based Systems and Future Generation Computer Systems. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings, including Information Sciences, Pattern Recognition, Future Generation Computer System, Expert Systems with Applications, Knowledge-based Systems, Neurocomputing, PAKDD, and others. He has more than 10 ESI highly cited papers and two hot cited papers.