Jian-Yu Li (Member, IEEE) received the Bachelor’s degree and the Ph. D. degree in Computer Science and Technology from the South China University of Technology, China, in 2018 and 2022, respectively. His research interests mainly include computational intelligence, data-driven optimization, machine learning, and their applications in real-world problems, and in environments of Large Language Model and big data. He has published more than 50 international academic papers, including 20 IEEE Transactions papers. He was a recipient of the Doctoral Dissertation Incentive Program from the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2025, the Most-Cited Paper Award from the Machine Intelligence Research in 2024, the Outstanding Paper Award from the CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems, and the Outstanding Reviewer from the Machine Intelligence Research in 2024. He is listed as the World’s Top 2% Scientist for Year Impact in Artificial Intelligence. He has been invited as the Area Chair, Special Session Chair, and PC Member of important international conference in artificial intelligence, such as IEEE CEC and MiTA, and also be invited as the reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetic, and the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.