Prof. Hongbin Zha is the director of the Key Laboratory of Machine Perception and Intelligence, Ministry of Education. He is also a Distinguished Professor under the Changjiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education and the academic leader of the innovation team "Machine Perception Theory and Applications" supported by the Ministry of Education. He has been engaged in research in the fields of intelligent science and technology and computer vision. Some of his research achievements have been applied in areas such as criminal investigation, healthcare, and cultural heritage. In particular, his leadership in the Digital Longmen Grottoes project has received significant attention from domestic and international peers and has been widely covered by mainstream media outlets such as CCTV. He has published over 300 papers and has edited and published five volumes of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. He has received awards such as the IEEE SMC Society Franklin V. Taylor Award, the Second Prize of National Technical Invention (2011), the First Prize of Ministry of Education Technical Invention (2010), and the Second Prize of Ministry of Public Security Scientific and Technological Progress (2009). He has served as a member of the 6th Expert Consultation Committee of the Information Science Department of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2011-2019), a member of the Information Department of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education (2004-2012), executive committee member and Technical Committee Chair of the IEEE Beijing Section (2006-2007), Vice Chairman of the China Society of Image and Graphics (2006-2011), editorial board member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, advisory committee member of Advanced Robotics, co-editor-in-chief of IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications, and associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer-Aided Design & Computer Graphics (2006-2010).
