Xiao-slang Li received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Kunming University of Technology in July 1992 and March 1995, respectively, and his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology in March 1998. He has researched and worked at the City University of Hong Kong, the University of Hannover, Germany (Humboldt Scholar), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the University of Birmingham, UK. He was a Humboldt Scholar at the University of Hannover, Germany, from 2000-2002, and received the National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund grant in 2010. He is the project leader of the National Natural Science Foundation of China's major research program "Cognitive Computation of Audiovisual Information", the Hebei Outstanding Young Scientist Fund, and the New Century Outstanding Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education. So far, he has published 80 papers in international journals, 78 in SCI, 81 in EI, and published monographs (two in Chinese and five in English), and his achievements have been nominated by the Ministry of Education for the First Prize of National Natural Science (1) and the Second Prize of Provincial and Ministerial Natural Science (3) and Third Prize (1).