Xinan Zhou is a faculty member at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences (UCAS) and the recipient of the 2023 ICTP Prize. His research focuses on high energy physics, particularly the AdS/CFT correspondence, conformal bootstrap, scattering amplitudes, and quantum gravity. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Science and Technology of China and earned his PhD from the C. N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University in 2018. Prior to his current role, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science from 2018 to 2021.