Zhile Yang is a researcher at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Shanghai University in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He received his PhD from Queen’s University, Belfast, in 2017. He worked as an assistant researcher/postdoctoral fellow at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, from 2017 to 2019. He also worked as a postdoctoral visiting scholar at Cardiff University in 2019. He joined the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology as a senior engineer (associate researcher) in 2020 and became an associate researcher (2021-2024) and a researcher in January 2025. His research areas include intelligent optimization scheduling, electric vehicles, new energy systems, intelligent manufacturing, and machine vision. His main research direction is basic research and the industrial application of industrial scenarios in the interdisciplinary field of +AI. He has won many awards, including the first prize of the 2022 China Simulation Society Technology Innovation Award and the second prize of the 2022 CIC International Intelligent Construction Innovation Award.