Jian Yang is a Professor at the School of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia, Deputy Director of the Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, and Co-Director of the Data Horizons Research Centre. He received his Ph.D. in Data Integration from the Australian National University in 1995. He has held academic and senior research positions at the University of New South Wales, Tilburg University (the Netherlands), and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). His research focuses on data mining, service computing, trustworthy artificial intelligence, financial fraud detection, and smart healthcare. He has published more than 300 high-quality academic papers and led a number of major research projects in artificial intelligence and data science, with extensive expertise in the translation and application of artificial intelligence technologies as well as industry-academia-research collaboration.