Xin Xu, IEEE Senior Member, is currently a full professor and deputy dean at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. His research deals with image processing, computer vision, and deep learning. More specifically, his research areas focus on building a hierarchical person-identification architecture, including detection and recognition for nighttime surveillance scenarios. He has published more than 150 high-level papers in academic journals and conferences. His publication was selected as the cover paper of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems in 2022. He was shortlisted as the Best Paper Finalist of the ICME 2021 conference.