Feiping Nie received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, China in 2000, received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Lanzhou University, China in 2003, and received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, China in 2009. Currently, he is a research assistant professor at the University of Texas, Arlington, USA. His research interests include machine learning and its application fields, such as pattern recognition, data mining, computer vision, image processing and information retrieval.