Hua Xu is a leading expert on Intelligent Natural Interaction and Service Robots. He is currently a tenured associate professor at Tsinghua University, Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Systems with Applications and Associate Editor of Expert Systems with Application. Prof. Xu has authored the books βData Mining: Methodology and Applicationsβ (2014), βData Mining: Methods and Applications-Application Casesβ (2017), βEvolutionary Machine Learningβ (2021), βData Mining: Methodology and Applicationsβ (2nd edition) (2022), βNatural Interaction for Tri-Co Robots (1) Human-machine Dialogue Intention Understandingβ (2022) and βNatural Interaction for Tri-Co Robots (2) Sentiment Analysis of Multimodal Interaction Informationβ (2023), and published more than 140 papers in top-tier international journals and conferences. He is core expert of the No. 3 National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, Senior Memberof CCF, member of CAAI and ACM, Vice Chairman of Tsinghua Collaborative Innovation Alliance of Robotics and Industry, and recipient of numerous awards, including the Second Prize of National Award for Progress in Science and Technology, First Prize for Technological Invention of CFLP, and First Prize for Science and Technology Progress of CFLP.