Jie Ji received the B.Sc degree from Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in 2010, all in mechanical engineering. From December 2013 to December 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada. Since July 2014, he has been an Associate Professor with the College of Engineering and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. His active research interests include advanced control & artificial intelligence, and their applications on intelligent and connected vehicles, in which he has contributed more than 30 articles and obtained 9 granted China patents. He is the recipient of the Best Land Transportation Paper Award from IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2019, and the Young Professional Excellent Paper Award from China SAE in 2019. Dr. Ji is a member of the China Society of Automotive Engineers, and is the founder of the Green Intelligent Vehicle and Electromobile Laboratory (GIVE Lab) at Southwest University (From 2015). Dr. Ji has been a reviewer for the journal of IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology, IET Intelligent Transport Systems, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, and several conferences related to connected and intelligent vehicles.