I am an IEEE Senior Member, conducting research in the field of artificial intelligence and its applications, with a focus on evolutionary computation for optimization problems and explainable AI models for healthcare. Previously I worked within the Department of Computer Science, Nottingham Trent University, the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University and School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham in the UK; also worked within the Department of Computer Science at Beijing Jiaotong University and Harbin Institute of Technology in China. I received the BSc and MSc degrees in mathematics, PhD degree in computer science all from Wuhan University, China.