Dr. Xiaodong Yue is an associate professor in the School of Computer Engineering & Science at Shanghai University. Before joining Shanghai University, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science & Technology at Tongji University. He also received the Ph.D. degree from Tongji University in 2010. In 2008, he was a research assistant in the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University. In 2017, he was a research associate at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. From 2011 to 2012, he was a research fellow in the Faculty of Engineering & Info Tech. at University of Technology, Sydney.

The major research interests of Dr. Yue include the theories and applications of Machine Learning, in which he has the special focus on Soft Computing, Image Analysis and Data Mining. He has published more than 60 academic papers in these areas, including prestigious journals and international conferences. Dr. Yue has supervised 4 national research foundations of China as a principal investigator. He also joined in 6 relevant national research projects and 3 engineering projects as a major participant in recent years.

In the past five years, Dr. Yue served as a PC member for a number of international conferences such as AAAI, PAKDD, ICONIP and also served as a publication chair for ICME2012, DSAA2014 and RSKT2014. He is an area editor of International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) and an associate editor of the Elsevier journal Array. He also served as a reviewer for several international journals such as 'Pattern Recognition', 'Information Sciences' and 'Knowledge-based Systems'.