Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China

Email: yulean@amss.ac.cn

Professor Lean Yu received his PhD degree in Management Science and Engineering from Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2005. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Business School, Sichuan University. Meantime, he is an Academician of International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS, France), a Fellow of International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management (IAITQM, USA), and a Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA, Hong Kong). He was a winner of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, “National Youth Top-Notch Talent Program” in China. He was served as editors, associate editors and editorial members of several international journals, such as Annals of Data Science, Financial Innovation, and Journal of Universal Computer Science. So far, he has published five monographs (two monographs have been published by Springer-Verlag) and over 150 SCI/SSCI articles in some top journals including INFORMS Journal on Computing, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. At the same time, he received many awards and honors, such as China Youth Science and Technology Award, “The 100 National Best PhD Theses Award” from Academic Degrees Committee of State Council and Ministry of Education of China, “First Prize for Beijing Science and Technology Award” from the Beijing Municipal Government, First Prize in Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education of China, and “Lu Jia-xi Young Talent Award” of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include business intelligence, big data mining, forecasting science, decision support systems, FinTech, and energy management.