Liangfu Lu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computational mathematics from Ludong University and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China in 2001 and 2004,respectively, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Tianjin University, China in 2008. He worked as a visiting scholar in the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, from Sept. 2011 to Sept.2012. He is currently an associate professor in School of Mathematics, Tianjin University. His research interests include compressive sensing, image processing and information visualization etc. He has published over 30 papers in top journals and conference proceedings and principally investigated some research projects Natural Science Foundation of China, such as “Research onVisual Analytics for Gene Expression Data,” and so on.