Qin Zheng assumes professor and doctoral supervisor of Southern University of Science and Technology. He serves as founding vice president of Southern University of Science and Technology, and founding dean of the School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

He has taken charge of and finished many academic projects of national natural science foundation, provincial natural science foundation and at provincial and ministerial-level. He has published more than 100 theses at home and abroad, and has finished 16 works and 2 national patents.He has won provincial and ministerial science and technology progress awards, 2005 Citigroup Financial Information Technology Education Fund Project Excellence Award Teaching Fellowship, 2006 Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Outstanding Communist Party Member, 2006 Baosteel Outstanding Teacher Award., etc.