Professor Cao is a Fellow of IEEE, a Member of the Academy of Europe, a Foreign member of Russian Academy of Engineering, a Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts etc. He is an Endowed Chair Professor, the Dean of the School of Mathematics, the Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Networked Collective Intelligence of China and the Director of the Research Center for Complex Systems and Network Sciences at Southeast University and the Dean of the School of Mathematics at Southeast University. So far, Professor Cao has published 995 ISI journal papers, 50 conference papers and 5 edited books since 1996. He is principal/co-principal investigator of 22 conducted research projects. His published papers have received more than 49897 citations with H-index of 112 according to ISI-Web of Science, and received 59122 citations with H-index of 124 according to Google Scholar. He has received, among others, National Innovation Award of China, Gold medal of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Obada Prize, The State Council Special Allowance of China, Thomson Reuters Research Fronts Award, the First Class Science and Technology Award of China Jiangsu, and the Second Class Natural Science Awards of Ministry of Education of China.