Dr. Qi Zhang is an Associate Professor of Physics at the Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. He has served as the Director of the Department of Applied Physics since 2023. He obtained his PhD from the Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics at Leiden University in the Netherlands in 2021. Before that, he earned his Bachelor's degree in Automation from Southwest University in 2013 and his Master's degree in Computer Application Technology in 2017. His research focuses on complex systems, specifically on the information-based analysis of complex systems, including: entropy-based studies on the structural analysis of complex networks; research on the information compression limits of ensemble nonequivalence systems with local constraints; and information fusion-based reconstruction of the topological structures of complex networks. He is the author of more than 30 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. His research tries to understand new mechanisms of information storage, transmission, and processing in complex systems, which provides an information-physical perspective on their complexity, and strives to discover new paradigms of information storage and fusion for information science.