Ying Tan is a professor and PhD advisor at the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science of Peking University, and director of Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Peking University (PKU). He received his BEng from the EEI, MSc from Xidian Univ., and PhD from Southeast Univ., in 1985, 1988, and 1997, respectively. From 1997, he was a postdoctoral fellow then an associate professor at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), then served as director of Institute of Intelligent Information Science and a full professor since 2000. He worked with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 1999 and 2004-2005. He was elected for the 100 talent program of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) in 2005