Baoping Cai is an associate professor at the China University of Petroleum (East China), a visiting researcher of the "Hong Kong Scholar" program at the City University of Hong Kong, and a visiting researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is an associate editor of IEEE Access (SCI journal) and Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences (SCI journal), an editorial board member of 3 international journals, and a leading guest editor of 1 international journal. His research interests include reliability engineering, fault diagnosis, risk analysis, and Bayesian networks methodology and application. Up to now, he has published 65 SCI-index journal papers, 4 monographs, and holds 37 patents.