Dr. Zhangying Ye is a professor and the associate director of the Institute of Agricultural Bio-environmental Engineering at College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University. He also serves as the vice-director of the Key Laboratory of Equipment and Informatization in Environment Controlled Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China.

He received a B.Sc. in Agricultural Architectural Environment and Energy Engineering in 2004 from Anhui Agricultural University and Ph.D. in Agricultural Bio-Environment and Energy Engineering in 2009 from China Agricultural University. During December 2006 to July 2008, he worked as a visiting scholar in Department of Biosystems Engineering, College of Agriculture Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a post doctor in the Institute of Agricultural Bio-environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University, and he has been working at Zhejiang university ever since.