Zhiwei Yang is currently an Associated Professor in the College of Systems Engineering at the National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China. He recieved his Ph.D. degree in computer science at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science in Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands. His research interests focus on intelligent algorithm, data mining and system-of-systems engineering. He has pubished 30+papers in these research areas, for example Natural Comouting, ICAE and JSEE.