Yin Zihan, 26, a native of Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, is based in Beijing and is a PhD student in quantum computing in the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University, where his research centers on the physical realization of quantum artificial-intelligence algorithms and on nonlinear quantum gates. He holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Physics from Tsinghua University and completed a minor in Economics at Peking University's National School of Development.

In industry and investment, he has held positions at ZhenFund, Roland Berger, and the hard-tech early-stage investment team of a leading China-based dual-currency fund, where he built deep coverage of emerging computing, semiconductors, and data centers. In these roles he took part in investments in several market leaders and helped incubate a number of early-stage teams that remain unannounced.

In 2023 he founded the Tsinghua University Student Association of China-U.S. People-to-People Exchange, which now has more than 1,000 members and has hosted over a hundred events. He enjoys swimming, mountaineering and rock climbing, hiking, and road cycling.