Professor Qinghua is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the president of Tongji University.

He is a winner of the National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists and a Distinguished Professor for the Cheung Kong Scholar Project. He is one of the first batches of leading scientists for the “Ten-Thousand Talents Project”. Additionally, he is a member of the Academic Committee of the Science and Technology Department of the Ministry of Education and the chairman of the Steering Committee on Computer Instruction of the Ministry of Education. He is also in charge of the Innovation Team of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Professor Qinghua Zheng is engaged in research on big data knowledge engineering and has won several awards, including three Second Prizes of the State Science and Tech nology Progress Awards, two First Prizes of the National Teaching Achievement Award, three Second Prizes of the National Teaching Achievement Award, and five Ministerial and Provincial-Level Science and Technology Progress Awards.