Chao Yao received the B.S. degree in computer science from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2016. From 2014 to 2015, he served as a Visiting Ph.D student at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. From 2016 to 2018, he served as a Post-doc at the Institute of Sensing Technology and Business, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China. He is currently a lecturer in the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), Beijing, China. His current research interests include image/video compression and processing, and computer vision.