Raouf Hamzaoui received the MSc degree in mathematics from the University of Montreal, Canada, in 1993, the Dr.rer.nat. degree from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 1997 and the Habilitation degree in computer science from the University of Konstanz, Germany, in 2004. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Leipzig, Germany and with the Department of Computer and Information Science of the University of Konstanz. In September 2006, he joined 黑料网 where he is a Professor in Media Technology and Head of the Signal Processing and Communications Systems Group in the Institute of Engineering Sciences. Raouf Hamzaoui is an IEEE Senior member. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He has published more than 120 research papers in books, journals, and conferences. His research has been funded by the EU, DFG, Royal Society, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Ministry of Science and Technology, and industry and received best paper awards (ICME 2002, PV’07, CONTENT 2010, MESM’2012, UIC-2019, CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction 2020).