Mingsheng Ying is currently Deputy Director for Research of the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Director of the Centre for Quantum Software, Tsinghua University; and Hui Yan Chair Professor of Computer Science, Tsinghua University.

He has published three books and served on the editorial board of several publications, including Artificial Intelligence Journal (Elsevier). He is inaugural Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing.

He received an NSF China Distinguished Young Scholar Award (1997) and a China National Science Award in Natural Science (2008).