He obtained the Master’s degree in Pattern Recognition & Intelligent System at Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, China, in 2004, and the PhD degree in Pattern Recognition & Intelligent System at University of Science and Technology, China, in 2007. From April 2008 to November 2009, he held a postdoctoral position in image processing in CNRS UMR6168 Lab Sciences de l’Information et des Systmes, France. From Jan. 2012 to Dec. 2014, he held a ‘Hongkong Scholar’ research position in pattern recognition at the Department of Computer Science of Hongkong Baptist University, Hongkong, China. Now he works in Laboratory of Data Mining and Intelligent Computing, Hefei University of Technology, China. His research is about pattern recognition, For multimodal data, including environmental data.