Lei Meng is Professor affiliated with the School of Software, Shandong University since 2020. He is recognized as a Qilu Young Scholar (Tier 1) and a Taishan Scholar Young Expert of Shandong Province. He is selected as an Outstanding Young Scholar in China's Engineering Frontiers by the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2021. He serves as the leader of an innovation team introduced under the "20 Policies for New Universities" initiative in Jinan City. He dedicates to the theoretical and technological research in machine learning applications for multimodal data representation. He authored a monograph published by Springer and over 70 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals and conferences such as MM, SIGGRAPH, AAAI, IJCAI, TKDE, TOIS, with over 3000 citations on Google Scholar. Research achievements have garnered the First Prize of Invention Innovation Award from the China Association of Inventions, the Second Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award from Shandong Computer Federation, the ACM Jinan Chapter Rising Star Award, and the Shandong Provincial Outstanding Young Award in Artificial Intelligence. Currently leading projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Fund), the National Key Research and Development Program, and the Shandong Provincial Excellent Youth Talent Program. Serving as an Associate Editor of Applied Soft Computing (SCI Q1, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Executive Committee Member of CSIG Youth Working Committee, CCF Multimedia Professional Committee, CAAI Embodied Intelligence Professional Committee, and Chair of CCF YOCSEF Jinan Chapter.