Dr. Yanqing Zhang is currently an Associated Professor of the Computer Science Department at Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Tianjin University, China, in 1983 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of South Florida, Tampa, in 1997.

His research interests include hybrid intelligent systems, computational intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computation, kernel machines, granular computing, data mining, Yin-Yang computation, nature-inspired computing, swarm intelligence, bioinformatics, computational Web intelligence, intelligent agents for e-Business and e-Security, intelligent grid computing and intelligent wireless mobile computing.

He has co-authored two books, co-edited two books and four conference proceedings. He published 15 book chapters, over 60 journal papers and about 130 conference/workshop papers.

He has served as a Reviewer for 50 international journals and as a program committee member in more than 100 international conferences and workshops. He is Program Co-Chair of 2009 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Program Co-Chair and Bioinformatics Track Chair of IEEE 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering and Program Co-Chair of 2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing. He is an associate editor of Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, and an editorial board member of International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics and International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems.

He received Outstanding Academic Service Award at IEEE 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (IEEE BIBE 2007), Achievement Award of the 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing, and 2005 IEEE-Granular Computing Outstanding Service Award at 2005 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE-GrC2005).

He is a member of the Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee, and the Data Mining Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.