Advisory Board and Editors Neural Networks
Shibiao Wan
Dr. Shibiao Wan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and the Co-Director for the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BISB) PhD Program at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also an Assistant Professor (courtesy) in the Department of Biostatistics at UNMC.
With more than 14 years of experience in machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, Dr. Wan has published >50 articles in top-tiered journals such as Genome Research, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Circulation Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Wan is the Editor-in-Chief for Current Proteomics, and an Editorial Board Member for a series of prestigious journals such as Briefings in Functional Genomics, Heliyon, BMC Bioinformatics, International Journal of Microbiology, PeerJ Computer Science, BioMed Research International, and Computational and Mathematical Methods, and a guest associate editor for multiple high-impact journals including Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Biology, Frontiers in Genetics, and Genes.
Dr Wan is a TPC member for >20 machine learning related international conferences including IEEE ICTAI. Dr. Wan is also a reviewer for >70 prestigious journals including Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Nature Computational Science, Science Advances, Nucleic Acids Research, Advanced Science, Cancer Research, Genome Biology, and Genome Medicine. Dr. Wan has received a number of accolades including the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award in 2025 by Springer Nature, the New Investigator Award in 2024 by UNMC, the FIRST Award in 2023 by Nebraska EPSCoR, the Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2022 by HK PolyU as well as the Global Peer Review Awards (top 1%) in “Cross-Field” and “Biology and Biochemistry” in 2019 by Clarivate. Dr. Wan is a member of AACR, ISCB and ACM and an IEEE Senior Member.
Wei Wang
Dr. Wei Wang is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Engineering Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen, China. Before this, he had been an associate professor with the School of Intelligent Systems, Sun Yat-sen University, China from 2019 to 2022. He had been the UM Macao Research Fellow at the University of Macau, Macau SAR. He received his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2018. His research interests include Psychophysiological Computing and Complex network He has authored/co-authored more than 100 scientific papers in top-tier international journals and conferences, including more than 50 scientific papers as the first/corresponding author, such as IEEE TITS, TNNLS, TBD, TCSS, TII, TETC, JBHI, IoT, ACM TALLIP, TKDD, WWW, and PKDD. He is the Leading Guest Editor of IEEE TCSS, JBHI, SETA, and the Guest Editor of ACM TOIT. He is a Program Chair of ISoIRS 2022, Track Chair of IEEE SmartIoT 2019&2020, TPC member of IEEE HealthCom 2020, and a regular reviewer of extensive top-tier field journals and conferences, such as IEEE TII, TBD, IoT, IJCAI, and WWW. He has an h-index of 26, a cumulative impact factor of 300+, and a total of 2500+ citations based on Google Scholar.
Keli Xiao
Dr. Keli Xiao is an Associate Professor in the College of Business at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Dr. Xiao’s research interests include business analytics, data mining, real estate/urban computing, economic bubbles and crises, and asset pricing. His research has appeared in many high-quality journals and conference proceedings, such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Real Estate Economics, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), etc. He regularly serves as an SPC or PC of numerous prestigious conferences, such as AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, ICDM, SDM, CIKM, etc.. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM.
Jun Ye
Jun Ye is a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ningbo University, P.R. China. He has more than 30 years of experience in teaching and research. His research interests include soft computing, neutrosophic theory and applications, fuzzy decision making theory and methods, intelligent control, robotics, pattern recognition, medical diagnosis, fault diagnosis, and rock mechanics. He has published more than 300 papers in journals, written a number of books related to his research work, and finished a few projects sponsored by the government of P.R. China. He was selected as “Elsevier Chinese Most Cited Researchers” in 2019, 2020 and 2021. In 2022, he was also selected as the 8th edition of Research.com ranking of top Computer Science scientists.
Lisu Yu
Lisu Yu received a Ph.D. degree at Key Laboratory of Information Coding and Transmission, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA, and the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. He has served as the student activities chair of IEEE Communication Society Chengdu Chapter and several international conferences technical program committee (TPC) members, Section Chair, and Special Track Chair. He is now serving as an Area Editor of the Elsevier Physical Communication, Associate Area Editor of Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, and Editor of the Elsevier Computer Communications, PeerJ Computer Science, PLOS ONE, and Frontiers in Signal Processing for Communications, and a Managing Guest Editor of Elsevier Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems, and IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC) and Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC) Members. He is a Senior Member of CIC. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, China. His main research interests include advanced wireless communications (B5G/6G), machine learning, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), ultra-dense network (UDN), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), visible light communication (VLC), and blockchain.
Zheng Yuan
Dr. Zheng Yuan is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing) at Kings College London.
Dr. Yuan holds a PhD and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BSc in Engineering from Queen Mary University of London and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Before joining King’s, Zheng was a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where she is still a Visiting Researcher.
Her research interests include, Educational NLP, Language acquisition, Multilingual NLP, Machine translation, Neural networks and deep learning, Transfer and multi-task learning, Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning, and Explainable machine learning.