Yongming Chen is currently an associate professor with the school of electrical engineering and automation, Hubei Normal University, Huangshi, China. He received PhD degrees in agricultural electrification and automation from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China until 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Yong He. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the national laboratory of pattern recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China until 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Tieniu Tan. He was a visiting scholar at the department of agricultural and biological engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA in 2017-2018 under the supervision of Prof. Wonsuk Lee. His research interests include intelligent robot system, machine learning, and applied mathematics.