Yiyan Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Hohai University, China. He is currently a Lecturer with the School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Nantong University. He is a member of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, and the China Computer Federation. His research interests include intelligent interpretation of multi-source remote sensing imagery, cross-modal feature fusion, and deep learning for remote sensing applications. He has published eight SCI-indexed papers as the first author in leading journals, including IEEE TIP, IEEE TGRS, Information Fusion, and ESWA, and has co-authored more than 20 papers. His publications have received over 640 citations on Google Scholar. He has participated as a key member in several national- and provincial-level research projects. He has received more than 20 awards and honors, including the National Scholarship for Doctoral Students, the Provincial Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, and the Outstanding Graduate of Hohai University. In 2024, he was awarded a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council for a joint Ph.D. program.