Yaping Dai received the B.E. degree in measurement and control technology and instruments from Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, in 1983, the M.E. degree from the School of Automation, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China, in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree from the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 1993. She is a Professor with School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. Her current research interests include computational intelligence, fuzzy modeling, knowledge discovery, knowledge-based decision making, pattern recognition, and image processing.