Yong Fang received B.Eng., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Communications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2000, 2003, and 2005, respectively. In 2007, he was a Lecturer with the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi’an. From 2007 to 2008, he was a Research Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. From 2009 to 2016, he was a Full Professor with the College of Information Engineering, Northwest A and F University, Shaanxi, China. He is currently a Full Professor with the School of Information Engineering, Chang’an University, Xi’an. His research interests include information theory, pattern recognition, compressive sensing, image/video coding, processing, and transmission. He had a long experience in hardware development, e.g., FPGAbased (Xilinx Vertex series) video codec design and DSP-based (TIC64 series) video surveillance system. He was an Area Editor of the International Journal of Electronics and Communications. He is also an Editor of the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS.