Yu-Jin ZHANG received his Ph.D. in Applied Science from the State University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, in 1989. From 1989 to 1993, he was a postdoctoral fellow and research fellow at the Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. In 1993, he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, where he has been a Professor (since 1997) and tenured Professor (since 2014) of Image Engineering.

He is active in education on and research into image engineering (including image processing, image analysis, and image understanding) and has published more than 550 research papers and more than 50 books in this field.

He has served as program chair of the "Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'2017)" and several other international conferences. He is the Honorary Chairman of Supervisors (since 2020) of CSIG, a Fellow of SPIE (since 2011) and a Fellow of CSIG (since 2019).