Dr. Yong Qin received his Ph.D. from Sichuan University, with joint doctoral training at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research primarily focuses on knowledge-based decision-making, smart tourism, business intelligence, and data mining. He has published more than 50 papers in SCI/SSCI-indexed journals, including Tourism Management, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Journal of Business Research, and Transportation Research Part A. His work has been cited 1,276 times with an H-index of 17 according to Google Scholar. Dr. Qin serves as an editorial board member of Information Processing & Management and as a reviewer for more than 40 leading international journals such as Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, and Knowledge-Based Systems.