Xiao ZHOU was born in Shandong province, China, in 1982. She received the B.E. degree in automation from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 2003, the M.E. degree in information and communication engineering from Inha University, South Korea, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 2013. She is currently an Associate Professor and a Supervisor of master’s students with Shandong University, Weihai, China. Her current research interests include wireless communication technology (channel estimation), intelligent information processing, image communication, digital image/video processing and analysis (transform coding, digital watermarking, forgery detection, etc.), computer vision, and artificial intelligence. As the project leader, she pesided over the National Natural Science Foundation of China; the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation; and the Science and Technology Development Plan Project of Weihai Municipality. As the first author or corresponding author, she has published more than 60 journal papers which have been indexed by SCI or EI, and has obtained ten China invention patents.