Zhenyu Lu received the Ph.D. degree in optics engineering from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, in 2008. He was a Research Associate with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K., from 2012 to 2013. He is currently a Professor, Supervisor of Doctoral and Master's Students, Dean of the Graduate School at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology. He is mainly engaged in the research of Smart Meteorology, and has proposed a series of innovative achievements in fields such as Smart Meteorological Forecasting and Smart Meteorological Retrieval. Over the past five years. He has published more than 50 academic papers, including over 20 papers indexed in SCI and more than 10 papers in Chinese Core Journals. He currently holds the following academic positions: Deputy Secretary-General of the Professional Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education, Chinese Association of Automation (CAA); Deputy Director of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Automation, CAA; Director of the Professional Committee on Autonomous Unmanned Systems, Jiangsu Association of Automation.