Jie Cheng received a Ph.D. degree in cartography and remote sensing from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2008., He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, from 2008 to 2010, an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, from 2009 to 2010, and a Visiting Scientist at the Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory,  Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, USA, from 2017 to 2018. He is a Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University. His main research interests include the estimation of land surface variables from satellite observations, radiative transfer modeling, and studies on Earth's radiation balance. He has published over 100 SCI-indexed peer-reviewed articles. He developed the Essential thermaL Infrared remoTe sEnsing (ELITE) product suite (http://elite.bnu.edu.cn). Dr. Cheng is the Associate Editor of Remote Sensing and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.