Yang Li received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both from Chongqing University, Chonqing, China, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He worked in telecom industry of China between January 2007 and September 2008 before starting his Ph.D. program at University of Sheffield, UK. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK, in September 2011. After one year of postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer and Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Li joined Beihang University as an Associate Professor (Tenure-track) in the Department of Automation Sciences and Electrical Engineering starting in February, 2013, and was promoted to Full Professor since July 2018. Dr. Li’s main research area is involved system identification and modeling for complex nonlinear processes: NARMAX methodology and applications; nonlinear and nonstationary signal processing; intelligent computation and data mining, parameter estimation and model optimization, sparse representation etc. Signal processing and data modeling: Neurophysiology and neuroimaging data modelling and analysis with applications in clinical and medical diagnosis and prognosis; EEG, fMRI/MEG and ECG data processing, modelling and analysis; brain computer interface etc. Image processing and machine learning: novel methodologies developments of image registration and segmentation algorithms, multivariate pattern classification algorithm to control engineering, bioengineering, neuroscience, systems/ synthetic biology, navigation etc. His research sponsors include the HK Research Grant Council (RGC) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) of China. Dr. Li has been in a number of professional and administrative committees. He is currently an Editor-in-Chief of the BIOINFO Mechanical Engineering, Associate Editors for Advances in Automobile Engineering, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Science, Chinese Journal of Stereology and Image Analysis. He served as a guest editor of IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, Neurocomputing and Multimedia tools and applications, and also served regularly as the reviewers of many international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing etc.