Dr. Xianrong (Shawn) Zheng is an Associate Professor of Information Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 2014. His research interests are AI, Cloud Computing, Data Science, and FinTech. Dr. Zheng is a Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Web Portals (IJWP), an Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Data Science (IJDS), a Technical Program Committee Member of ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), etc. Also, he is the Guest Editor of Special Issues “Financial Technologies (FinTech) in Finance and Economics” for Journal of Risk and Financial Management (JRFM), “Financial Data Science in the Era of Generative AI” for European Financial Management (EFM), etc.