Xiao-Jun Yang PhD, is a professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China. His scientific interests include Mathematical Physics, Fractional Calculus and Applications, Fractals, Mechanics, Analytic Number Theory, Integral Transforms, and Special Functions. He recieved the Atanasije Stojkovic Medal, Belgrade, Serbia (2021). He was awarded the Abel Award (Istanbul, Turkey, 2020) for the achievements in the area of Fractional Calculus and its Applications. He was also awarded the Obada-Prize, Cairo, Egypt (2019). He was a recipient of the Young Scientist Award (2019) for the contributions in developing the Local Fractional Calculus at ICCMAS-2019, Istanbul, Turkey, and the Springer Distinguished Researcher Award (2019) at ICMMAAC-2019, Jaipur, India. He is the Highly Cited Researcher (2021,2020 and 2019, Clarivate Analytics) in Mathematics, and Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researcher in Mathematics (2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020). He is one of the Scientific Committee of 10th edition of the Pan African Congress of Mathematicians. He is the author and co-author of 7 monographs for Elsevier, Springer Nature, CRC, World Science and Asian Academic, and co-editor of one edited book in De Gruyter.