Zheng-Jun Zha is a Professor with University of Science and Technology of China, and the Executive Director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Brain-Inspired Intelligence Technology and Application (NEL-BITA). His research interests include multimedia analysis and understanding, computer vision, multimodal content analysis and generation, and brain-inspired vision computing. He is a recipient of multiple paper awards from prestigious conferences, including the Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award in ACM Multimedia and the Distinguished Paper Award in AAAI etc. He is a member of ICME steering committee. He serves/served as an associate editor of IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, ACM TOMM etc.