Xiaochen Zhu received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Applied Meteorology of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2017. From October 2015 to October 2016 and from February to June 2018, he was a visiting scholar at the College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky. He is now an associate professor at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. His research interests include refined meteorological services, meteorological disaster prevention and reduction, and AI meteorology.