Ming-Hsuan Yang received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. He studied computer science and power mechanical engineering at the National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, computer science and brain theory at the University of Southern California, and artificial intelligence and operations research at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2000, he has been working on vision problems related to humanoid robots at the Honda Research Institute (formerly Honda Fundamental Research Labs). In 1999, he received the Ray Ozzie fellowship for his research work. He coauthored the book Face Detection and Gesture Recognition for Human-Computer Interaction (Kluwer Academic 2001) and is one of the guest editors for a special issue on face recognition for Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2003. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, robotics, and machine learning. He is currently an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and a senior member of the IEEE.