Dr. Hongbo Liu is an associate professor in the School of Information at Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering Division at Dalian University of Technology. He received PhD degrees in Computer Science from Dalian University of Technology. His research interests are in system modeling and optimization involving soft computing, probabilistic models, nature-inspired computing, swarm intelligence, collective intelligence, and other heuristics. Application areas include neuroinformatics, cognitive computing, computational grids, P2P computing, machine learning, data mining, etc. |