Prof Yonghong Peng is a Professor of Data Science at the University of Sunderland, United Kingdom. His research in data science includes machine learning/deep learning and artificial Intelligence, with application to health and genome data analytics. His research group has developed multiple leading approaches for the integrated analytics of genome data. Prof Peng is an associate editor for IEEE Transaction on Big Data, and an academic editor of PeerJ and PeerJ Computer Science. Prof Peng is the Chair for Big Data Task Force (BDTF) of IEEE computational intelligence society (CIS), and a member of Data Mining and Big Data Analytics Technical Committee of IEEE CIS. He is a founding member of the Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD) of IEEE Communications, and a member of Big Data Task Force of China Information Industry Association (CIIA). He is also an advisory board member for IEEE Special Interest Group (SIG) on Big Data for Cybersecurity and privacy.