Tiesong Zhao (Senior Member, IEEE) received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2006, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2011. He served as a research associate for the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong from 2011 to 2012, a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo from 2012 to 2013, and a research scientist with the Ubiquitous Multimedia Laboratory, the State University of New York at Buffalo from 2014 to 2015. He is currently a Minjiang Distinguished Professor at the College of Physics and Information Engineering, Fuzhou University, China. His research interests include multimedia signal processing, coding, quality assessment, and transmission. He has around 50 publications in these fields. Due to his contributions in video coding and transmission, he received the Fujian Science and Technology Award for Young Scholars in 2017. He has also been serving as an associate editor of IET Electronics Letters since 2019.