Dr Jixin Ma is a Reader of Computer Science in the Department of Computing and Information Systems of the Faculty of Architecture, Computing & Humanities, at University of Greenwich, U.K. He is the Director of the Centre of Computer and Computational Science and the Leader of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group of University of Greenwich. Dr Ma is also a Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University, Anhui University and Zhengzhou Light Industrial University, China.

Dr Ma obtained his BSc and MSc of Mathematics in 1982 and 1988, respectively, and PhD of Computer Sciences in 1994. His main research areas include Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering and Information Systems, with special interests in Temporal Logic, Temporal Databases, Reasoning about Action and Change, Case-Based Reasoning, Pattern Recognition and Graph Matching. Dr Ma has published more than 100 research papers in international journals and conferences, and is currently serving as the Editor of several international journals.