Li Dengfeng, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Director of the Research Center for Blockchain, Big Data, Intelligent Decision-Making and Game Theory, Chang Jiang Scholar Distinguished Professor (Ministry of Education of China), National Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions, National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker.

His research focuses on fuzzy decision-making and system analysis, artificial intelligence and intelligent decision-making, blockchain and big data, supply chain optimization and management, as well as economic management decision-making and game theory. He has innovatively proposed a new paradigm of “non-cooperative–cooperative bifunctional game”, which has been applied to supply chain, electric power, shipping logistics and other scenarios.

He has presided over more than 20 national and provincial research projects, including sub-projects of the National Key R&D Program, key and general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has received over 30 research awards including the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award and the First Prize of the Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education. He has published more than 10 academic monographs and over 300 papers in leading journals such as OMEGA, EJOR and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. More than 200 of these papers are indexed by SCI/SSCI/EI. His works have garnered over 9,500 citations in Scopus with an H-index of 52. Over 10 papers are ESI Highly Cited Papers. One paper won the Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee in 2013. He has been listed in the Elsevier Chinese Most Cited Researchers annually since 2014.

He currently serves as Chair of the Intelligent Decision and Game Theory Branch, Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economic Mathematics; Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications; Associate Editor of Group Decision and Negotiation and International Journal of Fuzzy Systems; and Managing Editor for Systems Engineering — Theory & Practice and Control and Decision.