Prof. Peng Rao obtained a doctoral degree from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He once served as Deputy Director of the Third Engineering Office of the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Secretary of the Party Branch. He is currently a member of the Party Committee, the Academic Committee, the Director of the Third Engineering Office of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, and the Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Intelligent Infrared Sensing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has won the first prize of the provincial and ministerial scientific and technological progress award and the outstanding scientific and technological achievement award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.