Kun QIAN received his doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) for his study on automatic general audio signal classification in 2018 in electrical engineering and information technology from Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany. From 2021, he has been appointed as a (Full) Professor with a title of “Teli Young Fellow” at the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has a strong collaboration connection to prestigious universities in Germany, UK, Japan, Singapore, and the USA. He was elected as the Forbes China “100 Outstanding Overseas Returnees” in 2023 and the MIT Technology Review (China) & DeepTech “Intelligent Computing Innovators 2023 of China”. Dr.Qian serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. He (co-)authored more than 160 publications in peer reviewed journals, and conference proceedings having received more than 3k citations (h-index 33).