Zhirong Luan received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in information and communication engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2010 and 2017. He has successively served as a visiting scholar at The Chinese University of Hong Kong from 2017 to 2019. He currently holds positions at Xi'an University of Technology. His main research activities concern artificial intelligence and machine learning, focusing on federated learning, information theoretic learning, robust estimation algorithms, and robot control.