Yao Mao received a B.S. degree from the Department of Automation from Chongqing University, China in 2001 and a Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Optics and Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012. He has been a professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2016. His research interests include information fusion, motion control, object detection, and tracking. He has published more than 80 papers in refereed conferences and journals.