Professor Lei Li was born in Yancheng, Jiangsu, China on May 1, 1961. He received his Doctor Degree of Science from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in 1989, and Doctor Degree of Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan in 1994 separately. He studied at Hirosaki University, Japan as a Post Doctoral and Research Assistant from April, 1989 to March 1992. From April 1992 up to present, he has been on the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering [1992-1997: Associate Professor, Aomori University, Japan, 1997-2001: Associate Professor, Yamaguchi University, Japan, 1999-2000: Visiting Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2002-present, Professor, Councilor and the Faculty Dean etc., Hosei University, Japan]. His research interest includes design, analysis and applications of the Fast Algorithms, Parallel Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, Machine Learning Algorithms etc. He has published around 230 papers in refereed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in these areas. He has been involved in more than 35 conferences and workshops as a program/general/organizing chair. He is serving as the Editor-in-Chief or an Associate Editor for some International Journals. He has been acting as an author/co-author or an editor/co-editor of 12 books. He received HITACHI TO Software Papers International Award in Sendai, Japan in 1990, Outstanding Leadership Award from the International Conference on Computer Convergence Technology in Seoul, Korea in 2011, Outstanding Service Award from ACM Research in Applied Computation Symposium in Miami , USA in 2011, and Asia Education Friendship Award from 2019 Education Forum for Asia Annual Conference, in Chengdu, China separately.