Hu Guangrui was born in Shanghai, China in 1938. He is a professor and advisor of Ph.D. students in Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China. He is the committee member of the Chinese Institute of Signal Processing, the editor of both the Signal Processing Journal and the Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing. His research interests are mainly in the areas of neural computing, communication networks, speech processing and antijam technology in communication systems. He has published more than 120 journal papers and 10 books in these fields, and about 40 papers were cited by SCI and EI. He has been awarded a first grade natural science prize of the National Education Ministry of China and other prize of second grade issued by Railway Ministry of China.