Granular Computing and Big Data Advancements

Chao Zhang , Professor of Institute of Intelligent Information Processing, Shanxi University, his main study interests include data mining, granular computing and intelligent decision making. In recent years, he has published more than 80 papers including IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Information Sciences, Information Fusion, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. Among them, one paper has been selected as “ESI highly cited paper”. He has published 3 academic monographs in national publishers. He has published 2 national invention patents. He has been awarded the first prize of Outstanding Achievements in Scientific Research in Institutions of Higher Learning in Shanxi Province, the second prize of Outstanding Achievement Award in Social Sciences in Shanxi Province, two Excellent Academic Paper Awards in Taiyuan City, ACM Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in Taiyuan Chapter. Wentao Li received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2019, and the M.Sc. degree from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing, China, in 2015. From 2016 to 2018, he was a joint Ph. D student with the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Artificial Intelligence, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. His current research interests include artificial intelligence, feature selection, and granular computing. In recent years, He has published over 30 articles including IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Information Sciences, Artificial Intelligence Review, and many others. Among them, 3 papers have been selected as “ESI hot paper” and “ESI highly cited paper”. He serves on editorial board of several international journals, and successfully held several Special Issues in journals of International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, and Frontiers in Neurorobotics. He also served as the reviewer of many journals, such as IEEE TFS, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TKDE, INS, KBS, AIRE, and granted the certificate of “Outstanding Reviewer” for Knowledge-Based Systems in 2018.