Yingying Dong received a B.S. degree in applied mathematics from Shandong Normal University, Shandong, China in 2006, an M.S. degree in computational mathematics from Capital Normal University, Beijing, China in 2009, and a Ph.D. degree in remote sensing in agriculture and information technology from Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China in 2013. After completing her Ph.D., she went to Canada to be a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Lethbridge. Currently, she is a Vice Director for the Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, working at the Aerospace Information Research Institute at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIR-CAS).