Zhiyou Wu is a full professor of Chongqing Normal University. She is also the director of Chongqing Key Lab of Intelligent Finance and Big Data Analysis, a Humboldt Research Fellow, the New Century Talent of the Ministry of Education, one of the One hundred leading talents in academic disciplines in Chongqing, etc. She is also the Executive director of Operations Research Society of China, the President of Chongqing Operational Research Society, etc. Her research area is on optimization theory and algorithms, especially on global optimization. She is the Principal Investigator of more than 15 projects including three National Natural Science Foundation of China and Australian National Project (ARC), etc. She has published more than 70 papers in journals such as SIAM, J and OPTIM, and has won 3 Chongqing Natural Science Awards. She has visited many universities in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Germany and so on. She is an adjunct professor and adjunct doctoral supervisor at Shanghai University and Southwest Jiaotong University.