Jianlei Kong received the B.E. degree in industrial automation, the master’s degree in control theory engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in forestry engineering from Beijing Forestry University, China, in 2011, 2013, and 2016. He is currently an Associate Professor of system science with Beijing Technology and Business University. He has published a number of invention patents, software copyrights, and academic papers, including eight ESI hot papers (Top 0.1%) and 16 ESI highly cited papers (Top 1%). His research interests include time-series prediction, pattern recognition, deep learning, and blockchain traceability.