Prof. Dr. Xianqiang He received his B.S. degree in marine and ocean engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1999, his M.S. degree in physical oceanography from the Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou, China, in 2002, and his Ph.D. degree in physical electronics from the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, in 2007. He is currently with the State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources. He is also with the School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. His research areas of interest include radiative transfer in coupled ocean and atmosphere systems, atmospheric correction of satellite ocean color remote sensing, and oceanography research using ocean color remote-sensing data.