Xiaodan Zhu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's University, a Mitchell Professor at the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute at Queen's University, and a Faculty Member at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Toronto. He received a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto in 2010 and a Master's degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology of Tsinghua University in 2000. Professor Zhu was a researcher at the National Research Council Canada from 2010 to 2017.