Badong Chen (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science and technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2008. He was a post-doctoral associate with the Com- putational NeuroEngineering Laboratory, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA from 2010 to 2012. He is currently a professor with the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. He has authored or coauthored over 200 articles in various journals and conference proceedings. His research interests are in signal processing, machine learning, and their applications to neural engineering and robotics. Dr. Chen serves (or has served) as a Technical Committee Member of the IEEE SPS Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) and the IEEE CIS Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDS) and an Associate Editor (or an Editor Board Member) for seven international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems , IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Neural Networks, Journal of The Franklin Institute, and Entropy.