Guangmin SUN was born in Shanxi, China, in 1960. He received the B.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 1982, the M.Sc. degree in communication and information systems from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in communication and information systems from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1997. He is a Professor with the Beijing University of Technology. His current research interests include neural networks and applications, image processing, and pattern recognition.