Yang Liu received the B.Eng., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in signal and information processing from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2013, 2015, and 2018, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at Xidian University, Xi’an, China. He has authored more than 50 technical articles in refereed journals and proceedings, including IEEE Trans. Image, IEEE Trans. Cybernetics, PR, CVPR, AAAI, and IJCAI. His research interests include dimensionality reduction, pattern recognition, and deep learning.