Wanyang Dai is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Mathematics at Nanjing University, Chief Scientist at Su Xia Control Technology, President and CEO of US-based (Industrial 6.0) SIR Forum, President of Jiangsu Probability & Statistics Society, Chairman of Jiangsu Big Data-Blockchain and Smart Information Special Committee, and Editor of over 20 international journals ranging from pure mathematics to its applications (e.g., Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Wireless Engineering and Technology). He has been a general chair and plenary/keynote speaker at over 60 IEEE/ACM, mathematics and statistics, and international conferences. He was a Review Committee Chair in mathematics/stochastic analysis of National Natural Science Awards (nation's highest award); a judging committee member/group leader in mathematics for the National Natural Science Awards of China; and a long-term participant of IMA Annual Program of Probability and Statistics in Complex Systems: Financial Engineering, Communication Networks and Genomics in (US-based) Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA). His papers have been published in many well-known international journals. He received his PhD in applied mathematics jointly with industrial engineering and systems engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A. (1996). He was an MTS (permanent) in End-to-End Network Architecture Department of AT&T Bell Labs (now Nokia Bell Labs) in U.S.A. (1996 to 1999).