Zeshui Xu received the PhD degree in management science and engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2003. From April 2003 to May 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the School of Economics and Management, Southeast University. From October 2005 to December 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. From November 2008 to February 2009, February 2010 to May 2010,  February 2011 to May 2011, and on August 2009, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong. He is currently an IEEE Senior Member, Reviewer of Mathematical Reviews of American Mathematical Society, and an Adjunct Professor with the Antai School of Economic and Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China; an Adjunct Professor with the School of Economics and Management, Southeast University Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. He is also currently a Chair Professor with the Sciences Institute, PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Information: An International Journal, International Journal of Applied Management Science, International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, System Engineering–Theory and Practice, Journal of Systems Engineering, and Fuzzy Systems and Mathematics. He has authored three books, and has contributed more than 300 journal articles to professional journals, including IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Information Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Group Decision and Negotiation, International Journal of Approximate reasoning, Information Fusion, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Expert Systems With Applications, SoftComputing, Applied Soft Computing, Knowledge-Based Systems, International Journal of General Systems, Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, and International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, etc. His current research interests include information fusion, group decision making, computing with words, intuitionistic fuzzy sets, and aggregation operators.