Prof. Dr. Yudong Zhang received his Ph.D. degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2010. He held a post-doctoral position with Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, from 2010 to 2012, and as an Assistant Research Scientist at the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene (RFMH), New York, from 2012 to 2013. He served as a Full Professor at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, from 2013 to 2017. He currently serves as a Professor at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. His research interests include deep learning and medical image analysis. In addition, he is a Fellow of IET, a Fellow of EAI, and a Fellow of BCS. He is the Senior Member of IEEE, IES, and ACM. He is the Distinguished Speaker of ACM. He was included in Most Cited Chinese Researchers (Computer Science) by Elsevier from 2014 to 2018. He was the 2019, 2021 & 2022 recipient of Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He is included in the World’s Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University from 2020 to 2022. He won the Emerald Citation of Excellence 2017, MDPI Top 10 Most Cited Papers 2015, Information Fusion 2022 Best Paper Award, etc. His three papers are included in the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.