Shiguang Shan received M.S. degree  in computer science from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China,  in 1999, and Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Institute of Computing  Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China, in 2004.  After graduate, he joined ICT, CAS in 2002 and became a full Professor in  2010. He is now the deputy director of the Key Lab of Intelligent Information  Processing of CAS. His research interests cover computer vision, pattern  recognition, and machine learning (deep learning). He especially focuses on  face recognition related research topics, and machine learning with little  data or weakly-supervised data. He has published more than 300 papers in  refereed journals and conferences. He has served as Area Chair for many  international conferences. He is(/was) Associate Editors of several  international journals. He is a recipient of the China’s State Natural  Science Award in 2015, and the China’s State S&T Progress Award in  2005 for his research work. He is also personally interested in brain  science, cognitive neuroscience, as well as their interdisciplinary research  topics with AI.