Mingli Song is currently a professor in College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University. He is leading Vision Intelligence and Pattern Analysis (VIPA) Group of ZJU. He received his Ph. D degree in Computer Science and Technology from College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, and B. Eng. Degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University. He was awarded Microsoft Research Fellowship in 2004.

His research interests mainly include Computational Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning,  Embedded Machine Vision and Visual Interaction. He has authored and co-authored more than 120 scientific articles at top venues including IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-IP, T-MM, T-SMCB, Information Sciences, Pattern Recognition, CVPR, ECCV and ACM MM.

He is an associate editor of Information Sciences, Neurocomputing and an editorial advisory board member of Recent Patent on Signal Processing. He has served with more than 10 major international conferences including ICDM, ACM Multimedia, ICIP, ICASSP, ICME, PCM, PSIVT and CAIP, and more than 10 prestigious international journals including T-IP, T-VCG, T-KDE, T-MM, T-CSVT, and TSMCB. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and Professional Member of ACM.