Jianfeng Zhan received a Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been a full professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences since September 2012. He is the director of the Center for Advanced Computer Systems, the founding chair of the International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil) committee, the chair of the Special Committee on Computing Benchmarks of the Chinese Society for Measurement, the founding editor of BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards, and Evaluations. He has won the second prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the Outstanding Achievement Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.