Xin-She Yang obtained his DPhil in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oxford. He then worked at Cambridge University and National Physical Laboratory (UK) as a Senior Research Scientist. He is currently a Reader in Modelling and Simulation at Middlesex University London, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Application (IMA) and a Book Series Co-Editor of the Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing. He has published more than 25 books and more than 400 peer-reviewed research publications with over 82000 citations, and he has been on the prestigious list of highly cited researchers (Web of Sciences) for seven consecutive years (2016-2022). Chien Su Fong is an associate professor of Engineering & Technology at Multimedia University Malaysia where his research focuses in networking, wireless communications and optical switching technology. He is a frequent presenter at the IEEE International Conference on Communications and a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA). T.O. Ting is currently a Lecturer with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He obtained his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His current research interests focus on the application of Computational Intelligence techniques in Engineering Optimization. He has recently presented his research as an invited speaker at the IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems and The Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications.
