Prof. Hongna Zhu is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Information Science and Technology at Southwest Jiaotong University. She is also a member of the Optical Society of America, IEEE, Chinese Optical Society, and China Computer Society, a member of the Ministry of Education's Higher Education Optoelectronics Guidance Committee, and a member of the National Undergraduate Optoelectronics Design Competition Committee. She received her PhD in Communications and Information Systems from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2013. She is engaged in research on fiber optic communications, nonlinear fiber optics, deep learning, and intelligent information processing technology. She has published more than 60 academic papers (40 of which are as the first or corresponding author). She has presided over many projects in cooperation with the National Natural Science Foundation, Sichuan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and enterprises.