Jun Zhou received the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, in 1996, the M.S. degree in Computer Science from Concordia University, Canada in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in computing science from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2006. He joined the School of Information and Communication Technology in Griffith University in June 2012, where he is currently a senior lecturer. Prior to his appointment in Griffith University, he had been a research fellow in the Australian National University and a researcher at NICTA Canberra Lab. Dr Zhou was a winner of the Discovery Early Career Research Award from the Australian Research Council in 2012. He is a key member of the ARC Research Hub for Driving Farming Productivity and Disease Prevention which has been funded for more than 10 million Australian dollars over the next 5 years. His research interests are in pattern recognition, computer vision, hyperspectral imaging, and their applications to remote sensing, environmental informatics, and agriculture.