Mingbo Zhao received the PhD degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in Feb. 2013 and worked as a research associate in the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong from Sep. 2012 to Jun. 2016. He is currently a Full Professor with Donghua University, China. His current interests include data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, and their applications. He has authored/co-authored 100 papers published at prestigious international journals and conferences, e.g., the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, the Pattern Recognition, the Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), the Information Sciences, Neural Networks, etc. He is a member of the IEEE.