Xuhong Tian received his B.S. degree in physics from Tsinghua University in 1990, and M.S. degree in computer science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1996, and Ph.D. degree in computer science from South China University of Technology in 2007. He is currently a professor in the department of computer science, South China Agricultural University. His research interests mainly focus on machine learning, computer vision, and data science.