About the author

Zhongzhi Shi, Professor at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Fellow of China Computer Federation (CCF), China Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ senior members, Association for the Advance of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) members. His research interests mainly include intelligence science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, multiagent systems, machine learning, and neural computing. He has been responsible for 973, 863, key projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He has been awarded various honors, such as the National Science and Technology Progress Award (2002), the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Award (2006), the Achievement Award of Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology by CAAI (2013), the Achievement Award of Multi-Agent Systems by China Multi-Agent Systems Technical Group of Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR), CCF (2016). He has published 20 books, including Mind Computation, Intelligent Science (in Chinese), Advanced Artificial Intelligence, Principles of Machine Learning, and Neural Networks,” in addition to more than 500 academic papers. He presently serves as Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Intelligence Science. He served as Secretary General of the CCF, Vice Chair of the CAAI, Chair of the Machine Learning and Data Mining Group WG12.2, IFIP TC12.