Dr. Wong Li Pei is an associate professor at the School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He obtained his Bachelor of Computer Science and Master of Science (Computer Science) from USM, and PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. His research fields are nature inspired metaheuristics, soft computing, and hyper-heuristics. His current research focus is scheduling in transportation and manufacturing. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses such as Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Evolutionary Computing, and Business Intelligence & Decision Analytics. He actively reviews journal paper submissions for Applied Soft Computing, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Natural Computing, IEEE Access, Information Sciences, and Swarm Intelligence. He is also a member of Infrastructure Working Group, Malaysia Open Science Alliance.