Jianhua Ma received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1990. He is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 papers and edited more than 20 books/proceedings and more than 20 journal special issues. His research interests include multimedia, networks, ubiquitous computing, social computing, and cyberintelligence.