Professor Hongbao Zhang is a faculty member in the Department of Physics at Beijing Normal University (BNU). He completed his undergraduate studies at BNU, obtained his MSc from Peking University, and received his PhD through a joint program involving NBU, Perimeter Institute, and University of Waterloo in Canada. He has conducted postdoctoral research at Crete Center for Theoretical Physics in Greece, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and The International Solvay Institutes in Belgium. His current research interests focus on the application of numerical relativity in AdS/CFT correspondence and astrophysics, and the covariant phase space formalism in field theories including gravity.