Lei Zhang (M’09) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, in 2004. She was a Professor of computer science with the College of Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, from 2005 to 2017. She is currently a Professor with the College of Computer Science and Technology, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology. Her research interests include signal/image processing, computer vision, and machine learning.