Dr. Zhu is a tenured professor of biostatistics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Zhu got his Ph.D. degree in statistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2000. He is an internationally recognized expert in statistical learning，medical image analysis, precision medicine，biostatistics, artificial intelligence, and big data analytics. He has been an elected Fellow of American Statistical Association and Institute of Mathematical Statistics since 2011. He received an established investigator award from Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas in 2016. He has published more than 250 papers in top journals, including Nature, Nature Neuroscience, PNAS, AOS, and JRSSB. He serves as a chair or area chair of top international conferences including AAAI and Information Processing in Medical Imaging, as well as an editorial board member of premier international journals, including Statistica Sinica, Annals of Statistics, and Journal of American Statistical Association.