Dr. Jeffrey Zheng received ME and PhD degrees from USTC in 1981 and Monash in 1994. He has been a professor at the School of Software, Yunnan University, China, since 2004. He is a member of IEEE, SPIE and a FIAAM member of IAAM. His research has focused on variant construction. He has received numerous awards, including Scientific Creative Excellent (2007/ 2012); 2012 Higher Levels of Overseas Scholar project in Yunnan.