Prof. Hongying Meng is a full professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Brunel University of London. Before joining Brunel, he held research positions in several UK universities, including University College London (UCL), University of York, University of Southampton, University of Lincoln, and University of Dundee. He received his BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. degrees in Communication and Electronic Systems, all from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. After that, he worked as a postdoc researcher and then a lecturer at the Electronic Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, before coming to the UK. His research area includes signal processing, computer vision, affective computing, artificial intelligence, neuromorphic computing, and the Internet of Things.