Hua Bao (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in 2000, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in control science and engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2007 and 2016, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with Anhui University. He is currently serving as a reviewer for multiple academic journals, including TCSVT, PR, JMLC, Applied Intelligence, Image and Vision Computing, and Journal of South China University of Technology.He is a member of the Visual Big Data and Machine Vision Committees of the Chinese Society of Image and Graphics, a member of the Hybrid Intelligence Committee of the Automation Society, and a member of the System Simulation Committee of the Chinese Society of Simulation. He is also currently serving as an expert in the evaluation of science and technology projects in provinces and cities such as Jiangxi, Wuxi, and Anhui. His research interests include automatic control, pattern recognition, and computer vision.