Jie Gui is an Associate Professor in Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He obtained his PhD degree in pattern recognition and intelligent systems from the University of Science and Technology of China, in 2010. He has worked as a postdoc research fellow in the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has obtained the 2012 Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellowship and worked in University of Technology, Sydney. His current research interests include machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining, image processing, and computer vision. He has published more than 30 papers in international journals and conferences such as IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TIP, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TSMCS and Pattern recognition (PR). He has obtained several honors and awards, such as Second Prize of Anhui Province Best Paper Award of Science, 2016, Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellowships, 2012 and Guanghua Outstanding Graduate Research Award of the University of Science and Technology of China, 2009. He is currently a Senior Member of IEEE. He serves as the peer reviewer of many leading journals such as IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TIP, IEEE TIFS, IEEE SMCS, PR, and ACM TKDD. He is the PC Member of many top conferences such as 2015 International Joint Conference on ArtificialIntelligence (IJCAI'15), 2016 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM'16) and 2015 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM'15).