Xiaoyang Wang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2007 and 2010 respectively. He received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in May 2015. Since June 2015, he has been working in Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ as a Video Analysis and Coding Researcher. His research interests include video analytics and understanding, object recognition, context modeling, probabilistic graphical models, machine learning, and deep learning. He won the ICPR Piero Zamperoni Best Student Paper Award in 2012 and is a member of the IEEE.