Haoji Hu received his BSc degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 2002. In 2007, he obtained his PhD in audio-visual person identification from the University of Southampton, UK. From 2007 to 2009, he was a postdoctral researcher in Communications and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. From 2009, he joined Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University as an Assistant Professor. He has been promoted to Associate Professorship since 2013. His research interests deep neural network theory and applications, especially in the areas of deep neural network compression, image segmentation and medical image analysis. Dr. Hu has published more than 90 research papers in world-renowned journal and conferences, which include IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Journal of Selected Areas of Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, ACM MM and NeurIPS. Dr. Hu is the winner of 2019 ICIP Top 10% paper award and 2022 IEEE SA Emerging Technology Award.