Professor Hong received his Ph. D. degree in Management at Da Yeh University (DYU) in Taiwan. Since April 2025, he has been a professor of the College of Shipbuilding Engineering at Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China.

His research focuses on the simulation and intelligent prediction of complex nonlinear dynamic systems. He has led numerous research projects and published over 180 papers in international academic journals and conferences, including 5 highly cited papers with an h-index of 55. He serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications, associate editor of Applied Soft Computing, and on the editorial boards of Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, Discover Internet of Things, and Security of Infocommunication Systems and Internet of Things. He serves as the general chair of the international academic conferences MIIPSC (2027), ICDM (2026), IPICE (2026), and CSMLA (2026), and the program committee chair of ICogSys (2026), APAM (2026), AIDMDI (2026), ICCIR (2026), CAIBDA (2026), and ICCMT (2026). He serves as reviewer for more than 400 international academic journals, including Green Energy and Intelligent Transportation, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Sustainable Cities and Society, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, Applied Energy, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge-Based Systems, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Energy, Journal of the Operational Research Society, International Journal of Forecasting, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Decision Support Systems, Applied Soft Computing, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C: Applications and Reviews, Neurocomputing, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Applied Intelligence, Tourism Management, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Applied Mathematical Modelling, etc.

He was elected as the Outstanding Professor Award by the Y. Z. Hsu Science and Technology Foundation (Taiwan) in 2014 and 2023. From 2020 to 2025, he was indexed in the World's TOP 2% Scientists in ICT & AI Image Processing (both career-long and single year impact lists). From 2022 to 2025, he has also been indexed the Scholar GPS Top 0.05% Scholar in Forecasting (both lifetime and Prior 5 Years).