Yong Fang received his BEng, MEng, and PhD degrees from Xidian University, Xi’an China, in 2000, 2003, and 2005, respectively, all in signal processing. Then, he was appointed as a post-doctoral fellow for one year in the School of Electronics & Information Engineering (SEIE), Northwest Polytechnique University (NWPU), Xi’an China. From 2007 to 2008, he joined the Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering, Hanyang University (HYU), Seoul Korea, as a research professor. He is currently a full professor with the College of Information Engineering (CIE), Northwest A&F University (NAFU), Shaanxi Yangling, China. He has long experiences in hardware development, e.g. FPGA-based (Xilinx Vertex series) video codec design, DSP-based (TI C64 series) video surveillance system, etc. His research interests include distributed source coding, joint source-channel coding, compressive sensing, image/video coding, processing, and transmission, etc.