Prof. Dr. Ping Zhang is a full professor of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) as well as the director of Wireless technology innovation Labs (WTI), BUPT, and also serves as a member of China 3G Group, China 863 FuTURE project, Technical Group of China 3G (C3G) Mobile Comm. R&D Project, Expert Group of China 3G Mobile Comm. Technology Tests, Expert Consultation Group of Mobile and Satellite Comm. of MII, China and advisor of Chinese Wireless Technology Standardization (CWTS) Group and advisor of NTT DoCoMo Research and Development (R&D) Advisory Board, and a vision committee member of WWRF. Prof. Zhang has been invited as the TPC member of a series of international conference, such as PIMRC and VTC etc.

Prof. Zhang is famous for his outstanding contribution for the world wireless communication and his research interest mainly focus on the research of mobile communications, especially in physical layer techniques. As project leader or principal investigator, Prof. Zhang has taken on many important projects including governmental projects and companies projects, such as 863 key project “Research and development on the third generation mobile communication systems”, and Natural Science Foundation of China “System, theory and applications in the next generation wireless multimedia networks”, and projects with Siemens, Ericsson and ETRI etc. These projects involved not only development on engineering, but also a lot of researches on fundamental theories.

As an author or co-author, Prof. Zhang has published more than 170 papers in international and domestic journals and international academic conference, 2 books, and owned 18 patents.
Due to these great achievements, Prof. Zhang has obtained many honors and awards from Chinese government and Educational Ministry, and is one of the few professors that enjoy Government Special Allowance in China.