Dr. Jie Ding received her B.Eng. degree in automation from Harbin Engineering University, China  in  2012 and  Ph.D. degree  in electrical and electronic engineering from  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2018.  She was a Scientist in Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R),  Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, from July 2018 to August 2019. Since September 2019, she has been with the Electronic Engineering Department, Fudan University, P.R. China, where she is currently a pre-tenure associate professor.  Her research interests include machine learning, pattern recognition, control & optimization and complex networks.