• Ph.D. in Computer Science 2006
• University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Data Mining, Multimedia, Bioinformatics

• Editorial Board Member of Neurocomputing (2007-2019); Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Journal of Machine Learning Research, IEEE Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Neural Processing Letters
• Program Committee Member in past Five Years: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV’17, ’15); British Machine Vision Conference(BMVC’17); IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR’17, ’16); IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’16, ’13, ’11, ’10, ’07); IEEE Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV’16); IEEE European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV’16).