Jin Zhang was born in Henan in 1979. His main research fields include artificial intelligence, software engineering, data mining, and so on. He has presided over/participated in a number of national/provincial scientific research projects, such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National 863 Key project, the National 973 project, the provincial self-science and Technology Fund, and the provincial Science and Technology Department project. He has published more than 50 SCI/EI/ISTP papers in well-known journals such as PNAS.