Dr. Weizheng (Wei) Gao is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU). He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Florida Atlantic University in 2012. His research spans cybersecurity, combinatorics, graph theory, algorithms, artificial intelligence and machine learning, education in math and computer science. Dr. Gao has authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications in IEEE, Springer, MDPI, and U.S. journals, and he has served as a reviewer for different conferences and journals. He currently serves as Guest Editor for the Special Issue “Combinatorics and Graph Theory with Applications to Computer Science” in Axioms. Dr. Gao is an active member of IEEE and SIAM, and his academic service includes program committee and steering committee membership for international conferences.