Chaoping XING is currently a Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. After obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1990, he remained at the university to work. In 1993, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and worked at the University of Essen in Germany, after which he conducted research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 1998, he joined the National University of Singapore, where he served successively as Assistant Professor, tenured Associate Professor, and Professor. In 2007, he began working as a Professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019.

His research has long focused on cryptography, coding theory, secure multi-party computation, and algebraic number theory. He has been selected for prestigious programs including the National Overseas High-Level Talent Program, the Shanghai Overseas High-Level Talent Program, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Hundred Talents Program.

He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Singapore National Science Award, the Kloosterman Chair Professorship at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in Germany. He has served as a member of the expert committee for the Hamming Medal, the highest award in the international coding community, and as a Visiting Professor at Stanford University.

He has authored four books. His book "Coding Theory – A First Course," published by Cambridge University Press, has been used as a textbook by many universities worldwide, including in Europe, America, and Asia. He has published one article in the Journal of the ACM, over 20 papers in cryptography at conferences such as Crypto, Eurocrypt, Asiacrypt, TCC, and PKC, and more than 20 papers at theoretical computer science conferences including FOCS, STOC, SODA, ICALP, CCC, and RANDOM. He has published over 80 papers on coding theory in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and more than 20 papers in mathematics journals such as Advances in Mathematics and the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.

He has led numerous research projects, including key projects from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, key research and development projects from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology, key projects from the Singapore National Science Foundation, as well as projects funded by the Singapore Ministry of Defence and the Singapore Ministry of Education. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several SCI-indexed journals, including the CCF-A journals IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and Information and Computation, and the CRCA-B journal Finite Fields and Their Applications.