Dr. Hong Qu received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2006. From 2007 to 2008, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada. From 2014 to 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, and the Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. He is currently a Professor with the Computational Intelligence Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His current research interests include neural networks, machine learning, and big data.