Tang Xianglong, male gender, is a Han Chinese, born in 1960. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1986, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Application Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1995. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the School of Computer Science of Harbin Institute of Technology, the leader of the doctoral program of Artificial Intelligence and Information Processing, and the director of Pattern Recognition Research Center.