IEEE Fellow; Changjiang Scholar Young Professor, College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University; Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology; Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems; Recipient of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Outstanding Early Career Award.