Wei Li received his B.E. degree in telecommunications engineering from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2007, his M.S. degree in information science and technology from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, in 2009, and his PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA, in 2012. Subsequently, he spent one year as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA. He is a professor at the School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. His research interests include hyperspectral image analysis, pattern recognition, and data compression. He received the 2015 Best Reviewer Award from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) for his service to the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS).