Yi Ma received Bachelors degree in Automation and Applied Mathematics from  Tsinghua University , Beijing, China, in 1995. He received an Master degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) in 1997, a second Master degree in Mathematics in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in EECS in 2000, all from the  University of California at Berkeley . From 2000 to 2011, he served as a tenured associated professor of the  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he now holds an Adjunct Professorship. He also serves as a research associate professor both in the Decision & Control Group of the  Coordinated Science Laboratory  and in the Image Formation & Processing Group of the  Beckman Institute . He was a visiting senior researcher at the Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China in fall 2006 and a visiting professor at EECS Department of UC Berkeley in spring 2007. Since January 2009, he has served as research manager for the Visual Computing Group  at Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China. From January 2012, he also holds a Guest Professorship at the Univeristy of Science and Technology of China. He has served as an associate editor of the  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)  from 2007 to 2011. He has also served as the chief guest editor for special issues for the Proceedings of IEEE and the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in 2010 and 2011. He currently serves as the associate editors for the  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory , the  International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) , the  IMA Journal on Information and Inference , and the  SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences . He serves as an Area Chair for NIPS 2011 and ICCV 2011 (Spain), and will be the Program Chair for ICCV 2013 (Australia), and General Chair for ICCV 2015 (Chile).