He received the B.E. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2008 (outstanding graduates), and received the Ph.D. degree from the Nanyang Technological University in 2012. From Jun 2012 to Aug 2014, he worked as a research scientist in Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore. From Jan 2015 to June 2015, he visited UC Berkeley as a visiting scholar. His research interests include computer vision and machine learning. He has published more than 30 papers on object and face recognition related topics in many international conferences and journals, including IEEE T-PAMI,IJCV, IEEE TIP, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, CVPR, ECCV, etc. He has organized tutorials in VCIP2015 and ACCV2014. He was awarded the Microsoft Research Fellowship in 2010, and ACM Shanghai Young Research Scientist in 2015, and he is a recipient of National 1000 Young Talents Program in 2016.