Honorary Professor at University of Liverpool, Professor and the Director for Research Institute of Big Data Analytics at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU).

Yulin Wang is a full professor at the School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China.

Yu Yao, IEEE Member, Associate Professor at the School of Information Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China.

Dr. Anwar Ali is an associate Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, China