[ "", "Prof. Jin-de CAO received a BS degree from Anhui Normal University, China, an MS degree from Yunnan University, China, and a PhD degree from Sichuan University, China, all in mathematics/applied mathematics, in 1986, 1989, and 1998, respectively. He is an Endowed Chair Professor, Dean of the School of Mathematics, Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Networked Collective Intelligence of China, and Director of the Research Center for Complex Systems and Network Sciences at Southeast University. Prof. CAO is a recipient of the National Innovation Award of China, Obada Prize, and the Highly Cited Researcher Award in Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics. He has been elected a fellow of IEEE, a member of the Academy of Europe, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, and an Academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences. His research interests include complex network and complex system, neurodynamics and optimization, and multi-agent systems" ]

[ "", "Prof. Yang LIU received a BS degree in mathematics from Zhejiang Normal University, China, in 2003, and a PhD degree from Tongji University, China, in 2008. He is currently a professor at the College of Mathematics and Computer Science of Zhejiang Normal University. He was the recipient of the Shanghai Outstanding PhD Thesis Award in 2012. He is an Associate Editor of Neur Process Lett. His research interests include hybrid systems and logical systems" ]

[ "", "Prof. Jian-quan LU received a BS degree from Zhejiang Normal University, China, an MS degree from Southeast University, China, and a PhD degree from City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, all in mathematics/ applied mathematics, in 2003, 2006, and 2009, respectively. From 2010 to 2012, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in PIK, Germany. He is currently a professor at the Department of Mathematics, Southeast University, China. He has published over 70 papers in refereed international journals. He is an associate editor of Neur Process Lett, J Franklin Inst, and Neur Comput Appl, and a guest editor of Math Comput Simul and IET Contr Theory Appl. He was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 2010. He was recognized by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University by the Ministry of Education, China in 2010, by Elsevier as a Most Cited Chinese Researcher in 2014–2016, and by Clarivate Analytics as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2018 and 2019. His current research interests include collective behavior in complex dynamic networks and multi-agent systems, and Boolean control networks" ]

[ "", "Prof. Leszek RUTKOWSKI received MS and PhD degrees from the Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland, in 1977 and 1980, respectively. He has been with the Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland, since 1980, where he is currently a professor and Director of the Institute of Computational Intelligence. From 1987 to 1990, he held a visiting position with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA. He has authored over 200 publications and six books. He is the Founding Chair of the Polish Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, which received the 2008 Outstanding Chapter Award. In 2004, he was elected a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the IEEE Fellow Membership Grade for contributions to neurocomputing and flexible fuzzy systems in 2004. He was a recipient of the IEEE Trans Neur Netw Outstanding Paper Award in 2005. In 2014 he received a degree honoris causa from the prestigious AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. His current research interests include stream data mining, computational intelligence, and pattern classification" ]