Muwei Jian received the PhD degree from the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, in 2014. Currently, Dr. Jian is a Professor and Ph.D Supervisor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University of Finance and Economics. Dr. Jian has been awarded the Royal Society – K. C. Wong International Fellow under Newton International Fellowship (NIF). In particular, he is supported by the "Taishan Young Scholars Program" of Shandong Province. His current research interests include human face recognition, image and video processing, machine learning and computer vision. Prof. Jian holds 5 granted national patents and has published over 80 papers in refereed international leading journals/conferences, such as IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia and IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He was the recipient of "The Most Cited Articles from Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation published since 2016, 2017 and 2018" and "High Impact Research Articles of MTAP". Meanwhile, Prof. Jian was actively involved in professional activities. He has been a member of the Program Committee and Special Session Chair of several international conferences, such as IJCAI, AAAI, ACM MM, ECAI, ICME, VCIP, ICTAI, etc. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of IET Computers & Digital Techniques and the Journal of Image and Graphics (JIG).