Jinyun Zhang

Jinyun Zhang is an electrical engineer whose work has included wireless networks, sensor networks, ultra-wideband networks, multi-hop routing, and network broadcasting. Originally from China, she was a doctoral student in Canada and works in the US, as a vice president and director at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]

Education and career

Zhang has a bachelor's degree in radio electronics from Tsinghua University in China,[1] and taught as a lecturer at Tsinghua University until 1985.[1][2] She went to the University of Ottawa in Canada for doctoral study in electrical engineering,[2] and completed her Ph.D. there in 1991.[1][3]

Next, she worked for ten years in Canada at Nortel. She moved from there to the US and to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in 2001.[3][2]

Recognition

Zhang was named an IEEE Fellow in 2008, as a member of the IEEE Communications Society, "for contributions to broadband wireless transmission and networking technology".[4] She is also a Fellow of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.[1]

Personal life

Zhang has a daughter, Lan Yang, who also studied electrical engineering at the University of Ottawa, earning a master's degree there in 2005.[5][6]

References
  1. Speaker profile, China University of Geosciences School of Automation, 2018, retrieved 2023-04-11
  2. "Jinyun Zhang", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, September 2006, retrieved 2023-04-11
  3. "Jinyun Zhang", People, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, retrieved 2023-04-11
  4. IEEE Fellows 2008, IEEE Communications Society, retrieved 2023-04-11
  5. Yang, Lan (2005), Pilot usability study of UI prototype for collaborative adaptive decision support in neonatal intensive care unit (Master's thesis), University of Ottawa, hdl:10393/27087; see acknowledgements, p. 3
  6. "L. Yang", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, September 2006, retrieved 2023-04-11
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