Zhaolong Ning (M’14) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. He was a Research Fellow with Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China. He has authored or coauthored more than 70 scientific papers in international journals and conferences. His research interests include social computing, network optimization, and big scholar data.