Yu-Bo Yuan received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in information and computational science from Lanzhou University,P R China,in 1997 and 2000, and Ph.D.degree information and computational science from Xi’an Jiaotong University , P R China, in 2003. From November 2003 to June 2006, he worked as lecture and Associate Professor in University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. From July 2006 to August 2008, he worked as research assistant professor in mathematics department of Virginia Tech, USA. From July 2011 to February 2012, he worked as visiting professor in school of mathematics and information sciences of Federation University, Australia. From February 2012, he has been working as director in the Big-Data and Multidisciplinary Sciences, East China University of Science and Technology. His current research include data science, big data analysis, optimization, data mining, machine learning and computational intelligence.