Dr. Huiyu Zhou currently is Reader at Department of Informatics, University of Leicester, UK. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers in the field. He was the recipient of "CVIU 2012 Most Cited Paper Award" and “ICPRAM 2016 Best Paper Award”. He is one of the Technical Committee of “Information Assurance & Intelligent Multimedia-Mobile Communication in IEEE SMC Society”, “Robotics Task Force” and “Biometrics Task Force” of the Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He has given over 50 invited talks at international conferences, industry and universities, and has served as a chair for 30 international conferences.