The 2023 IAPR Young Biometrics Investigator Award (YBIA) was given to Prof. Xiangyu Zhu from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. This highly competitive award recognizes an individual under the age of 40 who has made substantial contributions to the IAPR Biometrics community and whose research has had a major impact in biometrics. Prof. Zhu was selected by the Committee for “contributions to face biometrics: methodology, system, datasets“.