Wengang Zhou received the B.E. degree in electronic information engineering from Wuhan University, China, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering and information science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China, in 2011. From September 2011 to September 2013, he worked as a postdoc researcher in Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is currently a Professor at the EEIS Department, USTC.

His research interests include multimedia information retrieval, computer vision, and computer game. In those fields, he has published over 100 papers in IEEE/ACM Transactions and CCF Tier-A International Conferences. He is the winner of National Science Funds of China (NSFC) for Excellent Young Scientists. He is the recepient of the Best Paper Award for ICIMCS 2012. He received the award for the Excellent Ph.D Supervisor of Chinese Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG) in 2021, and the award for the Excellent Ph.D Supervisor of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2022. He won the First Class Wu-Wenjun Award for Progress in Artificial Intelligence Technology in 2021. He served as the publication chair of IEEE ICME 2021 and won 2021 ICME Outstanding Service Award. He is currently an Associate Editor and a Lead Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimeida.