Hongmin Gao (Member, IEEE) received a B.Sc. degree in communication engineering from Hohai University, Nanjing, China, in 2006, and a Ph.D. degree in computer application technology from Hohai University, Nanjing, China, in 2014. He currently works as a professor at the College of Computer and Information, Hohai University. He is also the Deputy Director of the Jiangsu Marine Monitoring Equipment and Data Processing Engineering Center. In the last five years, he has undertaken two research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), one research project supported by the Jiangsu Natural Science Foundation, and one research project supported by the Transformation of Scientific and Technological Achievements Project in Jiangsu Province. He has also participated in the National Key R&D Program of China. Some of these research results have since been applied to water resource and flood disaster monitoring and operations supporting systems of water conservancy; this project won the second prize of the Jiangxi Province Science and Technology Advancement Award in 2018. His research interests include deep learning, information fusion, and image processing in remote sensing.