Prof. Beiji Zou holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Software from Zhejiang University, a Master of Engineering in Computer Applications from Tsinghua University, and a Doctor of Engineering in Control Science and Engineering from Hunan University. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Computer Software and Theory at Tsinghua University, a visiting scholar at Griffith University, and a senior visiting scholar at Georgia State University. He has been a lecturer, associate professor, professor, doctoral supervisor, and vice dean of the School of Computer and Communication at Hunan University, and a professor, doctoral supervisor, vice dean, and dean of the School of Information Science and Engineering at Central South University. He is currently a second-level professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Computer Science, Central South University. His main research directions are medical image processing, object detection and tracking in natural scenes, medical big data analysis, etc. He has presided over 38 scientific research projects, including 10 national projects, 12 provincial and ministerial projects, and more than 30 projects commissioned by enterprises. He is a director and outstanding member of the China Computer Society, and a member of the Teaching Steering Committee for Computer Majors in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education.