Prof. Chuangyin Dang received PhD (Cum Laude) in Operations Research and Economics from Tilburg University in 1991, MSc degree in Applied Mathematics from Xidian University in 1986, and BSc degree in Computational Mathematics from Shanxi University in 1983. He is currently Professor in Department of Systems Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He had served as Head of the department for over 8 years. Prior to this, Prof. Dang held faculty positions at the University of California at Davis, Delft University of Technology, and the University of Auckland, and was a research fellow at the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics of Yale University. Prof. Dang's research focuses on game theory and applications, systems modeling and optimization, economics and computation, and pattern recognition and machine learning. He is best known for the inventions of the D1-triangulation of the Euclidean space and simplicial path-following methods for integer programming. Due to his significant contributions, Prof. Dang received the awards of outstanding research achievements of the year and outstanding PhD thesis from Tilburg University of The Netherlands in 1990 and 1991, and invited to give talks at universities such as Cornell University, Northwestern University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis. Prof. Dang has been in the list of Stanford’s top 2% most highly cited scientists since 2020. He has published over 230 papers in journals including Mathematical Programming, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Theory, Mathematics of Operations Research, SIAM Journal on Optimization, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Computation.