Prof. Rui Zhang received a B.Eng. degree in mechanical engineering from the North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, in 2004, and the M.Eng. degree in geographic information engineering and the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from the Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. His research interests include the development of ground deformation monitoring and early warning systems, fundamental study of microwave remote sensing, and synthetic aperture radar interferometry. Prof. Zhang was a recipient of the Best Paper Award of the 2nd International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Application, in 2012, and the Annual Excellent Paper Award of the Journal of Remote Sensing, in 2019.