Xuesong Michael Zhai is a Distinguished Research professor and Director of the Program of Science and Technology Education at the College of Education, Zhejiang University. He also served as the director of Zhejiang Higher Education Digitalization Pilot Group. His research interests encompass Artificial Intelligence in Education, Educational Applications of the Metaverse, and Educational Data Analysis and Measurements. In 2023, he was honored with the Distinguished Researcher Award by the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI).

Dr. Zhai currently serves as an Associate Editor on the section of Technology and Learning for the Nature Portfolio journal, Humanity and Social Science Communications(SSCI,A&HCI), and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies(SSCI,SCI,EI) , and the area editor of International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems(SCI,EI) handling the area of information system in Education. He has authored over 80 research papers in indexed journals, including Humanity and Social Science Communications, Educational Technology & Society (ET&S), Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR&D), Interactive Learning Environments (ILE), Higher Education, and the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning.