Dr. Xianxun Zhu is currently a postdoctoral at Shanghai University. He completed his joint PhD between Shanghai University and Macquarie University, where he specialized in multimodal affective computing. During his master’s studies, he received joint training at the Nokia Bell Labs and Shanghai Polytechnic University. Dr. Zhu has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and conferences—including AAAI, CMPB, and IEEE Communications Letters. He serves as an Associate Editor for Cognitive Computation and Array. In addition to his editorial work, Dr. Zhu was appointed Regional Chair for IEEE BESC 2025 and acted as Program Editor at EMITI 2024.