Hao Chen received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2001, 2003, and 2008, respectively. Since 2004, he has been with the School of Electronics and Information Engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology. He is currently a professor. He is also an expert at the National Engineering Research Center for Technology Application and a member of the “Spatial Information Perception and Decision-making Committee” of the Chinese Society of Image and Graphics. He has won four provincial and ministerial scientific research awards and one school teaching achievement award. His main research interests include remote sensing image processing and image compression.