Dr. Xuan Zhang obtained B.E. degree on Electronics and Information Engineering from Hunan University, China, in 2005. She obtained M.E. degree on Signal and Information Processing from Shandong University, China, in 2008. From May 2010 to January 2014, she worked as a Ph.D. research fellow in the field of Artificial Intelligence, in University of Agder, Norway. From September 2014 to December 2014, she worked in Teknova Company for the project of condition-based maintenance. Keywords of her research interests include: Machine Learning, Learning Automata, Stochastic Modeling and Optimization, Data Mining, Pattern Recognition and Classification, Condition-based Maintenance and Decision Support.