Zhijin Qin is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. She was with Imperial College London, Lancaster University, and Queen Mary University of London, UK, from 2016 to 2022. Her research interests include semantic communications, holographic communications, and edge computing network. She was a recipient of several awards, such as the 2017 IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award, the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2021 IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Signal Processing for Communications Committee Early Achievement Award, the 2022 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2023 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, the 2023 IEEE ComSoc SPCC Best Paper Award, and the 2023 IEEE SPS Best Paper Award. She served as a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) Special Issue on Semantic Communications and an Area Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Series. She also served as the Symposium Co-Chair for IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 and 2021. She is serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Networking, as well as the Area Editor of IEEE Communications Letters. She is serving as the principal investigator for the Key Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology (Young Scientist Program) and the principle investigator for the Major Program of Natural Nature Science Foundation of China.