Hanxu Hou received a B.Eng. in Information Security from Xidian University, Xian, China, in 2010, and Ph.D. degrees in the Dept. of Information Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015 and in the School of Electronic and Computer Engineering from Peking University in 2016. He is currently with Dongguan University of Technology and holds an Honorary Post-doc at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a recipient of the 2020 Chinese Information Theory Young Rising Star Award from the China Information Theory Society. He was recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer 2020 in IEEE Transactions on Communications. His research interests include erasure coding and coding for distributed storage systems.