Chao Ren received his B.S. degree in electronics and information engineering and Ph.D. in communication and information systems from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, in 2012 and 2017, respectively. From 2015 to 2016, he was a visiting scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego, CA, USA. He is currently an associate research professor with the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University. His research interests include inverse problems in image and video processing. He has authored more than 50 papers in journals/conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, etc. In addition, he has reviewed for more than 30 journals/conferences including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, etc. He has received support from the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc.