Jingyu Yang received the B.E. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) from Tsinghua University,Beijing, in 2009. He was with Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Beijing, in 2011, within the MSRA’s Young Scholar Supporting Program, and the Signal Processing Laboratory, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland,in 2012, and from 2014 to 2015. He has been a Faculty Member of Tianjin University, Tianjin,China, since 2009, where he is currently a Research Professor with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering. His current research interests include image/video processing, 3D imaging, and computer vision. As a Co-Author, he received the Best 10% Paper Award in the IEEE VCIP 2016 and the Platinum Best Paper Award in the IEEE ICME 2017. He was selected into the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University from the Ministry of Education, China, in 2011, the Elite Peiyang Scholar Program and the Reserved Peiyang Scholar Program of Tianjin University, in 2012 and 2014, respectively, and the Innovation Talent Promotion Program from Tianjin Municipal Commission of Science and Technology in 2015.