Song Jintao is a lecturer at Shandong Technology and Business University. His research interests focus on variational image processing, convex optimization methods, and algorithm-unrolled deep learning approaches. He previously completed his Ph.D. in Software Engineering at Qingdao University, where he conducted research on Efficient Optimization Algorithms for Image Processing under the supervision of Zhenkuan Pan, during that period, he was funded by the China Scholarship Council to conduct a one-year visiting research at the University of Birmingham under the supervision of Professor Jinming Duan.