Chengqing Zong is professor at the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.  He serves as chairs for many prestigious conferences such as ACL-IJCNLP, IJCAI, IJCAI-ECAI, AAAI and COLING, etc., and served as associate editors for prestigious journals such as TALLIP, Machine Translation, etc. He is the President of Asian Federation on Natural Language Processing and a member of International Committee on Computational Linguistics.