Jie Zhou was born in Baokang, Hubei, China in 1987. He received a B.S. in geographic information system from China University of Geoscience, Wuhan, in 2010 and a Ph.D. degree in cartographic and geographic information system from the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2016. From 2013 to 2015, he was a visiting scholar with the Delft University of Technology. From 2016 to 2018, he was a researcher with the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2018, he has been an associate professor with the Central China Normal University. His research interests include the time-series analysis of remote sensing data, drought monitoring using earth observations, and global environment change.