Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest (aka Yi Lin) earned his PhD degree in mathematics from Auburn University, Alabama; and served as a visiting professor of economics, finance, mathematics, and systems science at several major universities from various countries. Currently, he is a professor of mathematics and the research coach for the School of Business at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. Other than heading the International Institute for General Systems Studies, he served or serves on the editorial boards of thirteen scholarly journals, as a co-editor-in-chief of the international journal “Advances in Systems Science and Application,” the editor- or co-editor-in-chief of four book series, “Grey System (Springer),” “Systems Evaluation, Prediction, and Decision-Making (CRC Press, New York),” “Communications in Cybernetics, Systems Science and Engineering,” and “Communications in Cybernetics, Systems Science and Engineering – Proceedings (CRC Press, Balkema).” As of today, he publishedover 500 research works, including over 50 authored or edited volumes.