Jie Zhou (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Mathematics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, he served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, where he has been a Full Professor since 2003. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, and image processing. In recent years, he has authored more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Among them, more than 100 papers have been published in top journals and conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and CVPR. He is a fellow of the IAPR. He received the National Outstanding Youth Foundation of China Award. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and two other journals.