Before joining Penn State, he completed his Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. His research interest lies in the broad area of computer vision, machine learning, signal processing, and applied data sciences, with a focus on developing new computational tools to model and analyze the 3D environments from big visual data, and apply them to solve challenging real-world problems in VR/AR, vision-based navigation, architectural design and engineering, social media, and more. To learn more, please visit his homepage: https://faculty.ist.psu.edu/zzhou