Zhihui Wei was born in Jiangsu, China, in 1963. He received an B.Sc. degree in applied mathematics in 1983, an M.Sc. degree in applied mathematics in 1986, and a Ph.D. degree in communication and information system in 2003 from South East University, Nanjing, China. He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. His main research areas include partial differential equations, image processing, multiscale analysis, sparse representation, and compressed sensing.