XUBING YANG received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Anhui University in 1997. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Applications at Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics (NUAA) in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Since 2008, he joined Nanjing Forestry University and now works as an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at NFU. His research interests include pattern recognition, machine learning, and neural computing. In these fields, he has authored or co-authored over 50 scientific journal papers.