He received his B.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science&Technology(HUST) in 2004 and his Ph.D. degree from HUST in 2009. He is currently a Professor and Dean with the School of Computer, University of South China and the International Cooperation Research Center for Medical Big Data of Hunan Province. He has authored several books and over 40 papers in journals and at international conferences/workshops. He has been the Workshop Chairman (2022) at the 16th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, and the Session Chairman (2021,2022) of Asian Conference on Artificial Intelligence Technology. His current research interests include intelligent nuclear security, big data analysis and causal inference, high-reliability computing and security evaluation.