Xu-Yao Zhang is a professor at National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He received BS degree in computational mathematics from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2008, and PhD degree in pattern recognition and intelligent systems from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2013. He was a visiting researcher at CENPARMI of Concordia University in 2012. From March 2015 to March 2016, he was a visiting scholar in the deep learning lab of MILA at University of Montreal. His research interests include machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, and deep learning.