Dr. Xianrong (Shawn) Zheng is an Associate Professor of Information Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States, and an Adjunct Professor of Financial Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China. He is also the founding director of the Financial Computing Laboratory, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 2014. His research interests are AI, cloud computing, and fintech. Dr. Zheng is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the China Computer Federation (CCF). He is a member of the Technical Program Committee of ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ACM ICAIF) and IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS). He was the guest editor of the Special Issue "Financial Technologies (FinTech) in Finance and Economics" for Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM), an editorial board member of International Journal of Data Science (IJDS), and the Editor-in-Chief of the inaugural Journal of Data Science Research (JDSR). Contact him by email xrzheng AT ustc DOT edu.