Naiming Xie is a full professor at Institute of Grey System Studies, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He graduated at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) and got Ph.D. degree in 2008. His major research areas are grey system theory, uncertainty scheduling, and data analytics. He has published 5 books and more than 140 journal articles, more than 90 of them were indexed in SCI/SSCI. He took in charge of nearly 20 scientific research projects, including 4 projects funded by National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and 1 jointed funding by NSFC and Royal Society of UK. Prof Xie is an associate editor of the international journal, Grey Systems: Theory and Application since 2011.

And Prof. Xie is also the secretary-general of International Association of Grey System and Uncertainty Analysis and the vice president of Grey System Professional Committee of Overall Planning and Economical Mathematics (China).