Computational Aspects of Social Networks
暫譯: 社交網絡的計算面向

Weili Wu is an IEEE-fellow and a full professor in the Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA. She received the MS and PhD degrees from the Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. She has published a large number of research articles in the general area of data communication and data management, including the design and analysis of algorithms for optimization problems that occur in wireless networking environments and various data systems.

Zhang Zhao is a Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang Normal University. Her primary research focuses on the design and analysis of combinatorial optimization algorithms. She has led and completed four projects funded by NSFC (including the Fund for Excellent Young Scholars) and four projects funded by the Ministry of Education (including the New Century Excellent Talents Support Program). She has also won the First Prize in Scientific and Technological Progress of Xinjiang. Professor Zhang is a member of the 8th Mathematics Subject Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, an executive director of the Operations Research Society of China, an associate editor of Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, etc.

Ding-Zhu Du is a professor at Department of Computer Science, the University of Texas at Dallas. He received his Master's degree in 1982 from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research areas include optimization theory and mathematical foundation of computer science. He had worked in MSRI (Berkeley), MIT, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Princeton University, University of Minnesota, and NSF of USA. He was granted the Natural Science First-Class Prize of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1992, the National Natural Science Second-Class Prize of China in 1993, the CSTS award of INFORMS in 1998, and the Constantin Caratheodory Prize in 2025.

吳維莉是IEEE會士，並且是美國德克薩斯州達拉斯市德克薩斯大學計算機科學系的全職教授。她於1998年和2002年分別在美國明尼蘇達州明尼阿波利斯的明尼蘇達大學計算機科學系獲得碩士和博士學位。她在數據通信和數據管理的一般領域發表了大量研究文章，包括針對無線網絡環境和各種數據系統中出現的優化問題的算法設計與分析。

張兆是浙江師範大學的特聘教授。她的主要研究集中在組合優化算法的設計與分析上。她主導並完成了四個由國家自然科學基金（包括優秀青年學者基金）資助的項目，以及四個由教育部資助的項目（包括新世紀優秀人才支持計劃）。她還獲得了新疆科學技術進步一等獎。張教授是國務院學位委員會第八屆數學學科評估小組的成員，中國運籌學會的執行理事，《組合優化期刊》的副編輯等。

杜鼎柱是德克薩斯大學達拉斯分校計算機科學系的教授。他於1982年在中國科學院獲得碩士學位，並於1985年在加州大學聖巴巴拉分校獲得博士學位。他的研究領域包括優化理論和計算機科學的數學基礎。他曾在美國加州大學伯克利分校的數學科學研究所（MSRI）、麻省理工學院、中國科學院、普林斯頓大學、明尼蘇達大學和美國國家科學基金會工作。他於1992年獲得中國科學院自然科學一等獎，1993年獲得中國國家自然科學二等獎，1998年獲得INFORMS的CSTS獎，並於2025年獲得康斯坦丁·卡拉提奧多里獎。