Jie Xiong received his B.S degree of Computer science and Telecommunication from ChongQing University of Post and Telecommunication, China, in 1998; M.S. degree of Computer Science from Yangtze University, China, in 2005; and Ph.D. degree of Geophysics from China University of Geosciences, China, in 2012. From January 2016 to December 2016, he was a visiting professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Mississippi State University, MS, USA.

He is currently an associate professor in the school of Electronics and Information, Yangtze University, China. His research interests include geophysics, cloud computing, big data analysis, and artificial intelligence.