Dr. Yan Yan is currently a Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Texas State University. He was a research fellow at the University of Michigan (2016-2017) with Prof. Jason J. Corso and at the University of Trento (2014-2016) with Prof. Nicu Sebe. He was a visiting scholar with Dr. Alexander G. Hauptmann (2013) at the Carnegie Mellon University and a visiting research fellow with Dr. Stefan Winkler (2015) at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC), UIUC, Singapore. He has published 60+ research papers in the fields of computer vision, machine learning and multimedia. He received IBM Best Student Paper Award in ICPR 2014 and Best Paper Award in ACM Multimedia 2015. He has been served as PC members for several major conferences and reviewers for referred journals in computer vision and multimedia. He also served as a guest editor in TPAMI, CVIU and TOMM.