Dr. Chein-I Chang has been with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), since 1987 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He is also currently holding Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professorship at the Ministry of Education in China and has been the director of Center for Hyperspectral Imaging in Remote Sensing (CHIRS) at Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China since 2016.