Professor Xian-Da Zhang

Tsinghua University 

Xian-Da Zhang was born in Jiangxi, China in 1946.   He received the BS degree in radar engineering from Xidian University, Xi'an, China, in 1969 and received the MS degree in instrument engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 1982, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1987.

From August 1990 to August 1991 he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at San Diego.   From 1992, he has been with the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, as a Professor.  From April 1999 to March 2002, he was with the Key Laboratory for Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an, China, as a Specially Appointed Professor awarded by the Ministry of Education of China and the Cheung Kong Scholars Programme.   His current research interests are signal processing, intelligent signal processing, machine learning and pattern recognitions with applications in wireless communications and radar.   He has published over 120 papers including more than fifty papers in IEEE Transactions, IEEE Journals and Neural Computation, and authored six books (all in Chinese).   He holds four patents.

Dr. Zhang was the recipient of the 1997 National Natural Science Award of China, and is Senior Member, IEEE.