Yongqiang Zhao (Member, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in control science and engineering from Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an, China, in 1998, 2001, and 2004, respectively. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, and Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. He is currently a Professor with Northwestern Polytechnical University. His research interests include polarization vision, hyperspectral imaging, and pattern recognition.