Jie Yang received a bachelor’s degree in Automatic Control in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), attaining a master’s degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent System three years later. In 1994, he received a Ph.D. at the Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany. Now, he is the Professor and Director of Institute of Image Processing and Pattern recognition in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is the principal investigator of more than 30 national and ministry scientific research projects in image processing, pattern recognition, data mining, and artificial intelligence. He has published six books and more than five hundred articles in national or international academic journals and conferences. Google citation 24964 H-index 81. Up to now, he has supervised 5 postdoctoral, 46 doctor, and 70 master students, was awarded six research achievement prizes from the Ministry of Education, China and Shanghai municipality. Two Ph.D. dissertation he supervised was evaluated as “National Best Ph.D. Dissertation” in 2009 and in 2017. Two Ph.D. dissertations he supervised were evaluated as “Shanghai Best Ph.D. Dissertation” in 2009 and 2010. He owns 48 patents.