Lingling Zhao is currently an associate professor/doctoral supervisor at the School of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, and a member of the Bioinformatics Committee and the Computational Design Committee of the China Computer Society. She received a master’s (2006) and Ph.D. (2011) from Harbin Institute of Technology. She was a visiting scholar at McGill University in Canada (2015–2016). Her main research direction is machine learning methods and their applications in interdisciplinary fields.