Professor Yu-Chu Tian is a professor of computer science at the School of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane QLD, Australia. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer and software engineering from the University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in industrial automation from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1993. He has previously worked at Hong Kong University of Technology, Hong Kong, China; Curtin University, Perth WA, Australia; and the University of Maryland at College Park, MD, USA. His research interests encompass a wide range of areas, including big data computing, cloud computing, computer networks, smart grid communications and control, optimization and machine learning, networked control systems, and cyber-physical security.
Professor Jing Gao is a professor and the dean of the College of Computer and Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agriculture University, Hohhot, China. She also serves as the director of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Key Laboratory of Big Data Research and Application for Agricultural and Animal Husbandry, Hohhot, China. She received the Ph.D. degree in computer science and technology from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2009. She has previously worked as a visiting professor at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane QLD, Australia. Her research interests include computer networks, big data analytics and computing, knowledge discovery, and agricultural intelligent systems.