Zhi-Hua Zhou is Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, and Vice President of Nanjing University. His research interests are mainly in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining, with significant contributions to ensemble learning, multi-label and weakly supervised learning, etc.

Zhi-Hua Zhou was admitted to the School of Computer Science of Nanjing University in 1992. After he received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, he stayed at the university to teach from 2001. He was appointed as associate professor in 2002. He received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2003 and was appointed as professor in the same year. He was appointed as a supervisor of doctoral candidates in 2004 and was elected into the New Century National Talents Project (State Level) in 2009. He was elected as a member of Academia Europaea in 2017, and became the head of the School of Computer Science and Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence of Nanjing University in 2018, and the vice president of Nanjing University in 2024.

He has authored the books “Ensemble Methods: Foundations and Algorithms”, “Machine Learning”, etc., and published more than 200 papers in top-tier journals or conferences. According to Google Scholar, his publications have received more than 100,000+ citations, with a H-index 129. Many of his inventions have been successfully deployed in industry. He founded ACML (Asian Conference on Machine Learning), serves as series editor of Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, advisory board member of AI Magazine, editor-in-chief of Frontiers of Computer Science, etc. He is the President of IJCAI Trustee, Fellow of the ACM, AAAI, AAAS, IEEE, etc., member of the Academia Europaea, and recipient of the National Natural Science Award of China, the IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award, the CCF-ACM Artificial Intelligence Award, etc.