Dr. Zeshui Xu received the Ph.D. degree in management science and engineering from Southeast
University, Nanjing, China, in 2003. From October 2005 to December 2007, he was a Postdoctoral
Researcher with School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is a
Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chang
Jiang Scholars of the Ministry of Education of China. He is currently a Professor with the
Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu. He has been selected as a Thomson Reuters Highly
Cited Researcher (in the fields of Computer Science (2014-2018) and Engineering (2014, 2016,
2018), respectively), and also the Most Cited Chinese Researchers (Ranked first in Computer
Science, 2014-2018, Released by Elsevier). He is currently the associate editors of IEEE
Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Information Sciences, Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making,
International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, etc., a member of the advisory boards of Knowledge-Based
Systems, Granular Computing, and also a member of Editorial Boards of more than thirty
professional journals. He has contributed more than 700 journal articles to professional
journals. His current research interests include decision making, information fusion, clustering
analysis, and fuzzy sets.