Jiuping Xu was born in 1962. He is a Distinguished Professor of "Cheung Kong Scholars Program", the "Ten Thousand Project" National Leading Scholar of China, the academic leader of State Key Laboratory and the Assistant Principal at Sichuan University. Prof. Xu has been appointed as Lifetime Academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management, and World Journal of Modelling and Simulation since 2006. He is also the Vice-President of the Systems Engineering Society of China. He has published more than 40 books in well recognized presses and over 500 academic papers in areas of uncertainty decision-making, systems engineering, etc. in peer-reviewed journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Aerospace Science and Technology, IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, International Journal of Systems Science and so on.