Dr. Lingjun Kong received hisM.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, China, in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He was a Research Fellow of Nanyang Technical University from 2012 to 2013 and a Visiting Scholar with the Center for Memory Recording Research, the University of California at San Diego, USA, from 2016 to 2017. He is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Network and Telecommunication Engineering, the Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China. Before joining the JIT, he had been with the College of Telecommunication and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts andTelecommunications, since 2014. His current research interests include advanced coding and signal processing for various emerging data storage and communication systems.