Dr. Yunhe Hou received his B.Sc. (Eng) and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering all from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 1999 and 2005, respectively. Before joining the University of Hong Kong in 2009, he served as a researcher with University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, from September 2008 to July 2009. From March 2008 to August 2008, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Iowa State University, U.S.A. He also worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Tsinghua University, China, from September 2005 to August 2007. In 2010, he was a visiting scientist with Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA