Jian Hou is currently a professor at Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, China. His research interests include data clustering and the application in pattern recognition, matching learning and computer vision. He has published some papers in journals including IEEE TIP, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TII, Pattern Recognition, Information Sciences, and conferences including ICME, ICPR, ICIP, ICASSP, IJCNN, PAKDD.