Honggang Zhang (张宏纲)

Current

• Professor at Zhejiang University (浙江大学), Hangzhou, CHINA

Past

• Senior Research Scientist & Project Coordinator at CREATE-NET, Italy, European Union (EU)
• Expert Researcher at National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

Education

• Kagoshima University, Japan

Connections

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Industry

Telecommunications

Honggang Zhang (张宏纲)’s Summary

A researcher whose expertise/skills in the academic research & development of wireless, mobile, broadband, and personal communications and networks, and whose experiences of worldwide standardization and regulation activities can contribute to the growth, the development and the benefit of a university, a research institute, or a high-tech identity, as summarized as following:

(1) 20+ years experiences in R&D in wireless, mobile, broadband, and personal communications and networking, especially in the fields of cognitive radio (CR) and cognitive networks (CN), Ultra-Wideband (UWB) systems and technologies, WPAN/WLAN/WMAN, wireless sensor networks, autonomic communications and self-organizing networks, consumer communications & smart home networking, software-defined radio (SDR), wireless fading channel modelling and Wireless 1394 systems.

(2) Standardization advocator, organizer and contributor in IEEE 802.15 WPAN Task Group (TG4a, former TG3a, http://www.ieee802.org/15/pub/TG3a_CFP.html).

(3) Founding member of UWB Forum and principle author of DS-UWB specifications in IEEE 802.15 WPAN standardization, for which he initiated the "Soft-Spectrum Adaptation (SSA)" technique and contributed to its worldwide developments.

(4) International research projects leader, especially within the European IST(Information Society Technologies) Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) - EUWB, PULSERS 2, etc.

(5) Leadership in the Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) as well as a number of international academic conferences (e.g., CrownCom 2006-2009, ChinaCom 2007, and IEEE ISCIT 2006-2009).

Honggang Zhang (张宏纲)’s Specialties:

(1) Cognitive Radio & Cognitive Networks related research & development, technical committee organization and management;
(2) Testbed and prototypes implementation for UWB and Cognitive Radio;
(3) IEEE 802.11 (WLAN), 802.15 (WPAN/WBAN), 802.16 (WiMAX) and 802.22 (WRAN) standardization;
(4) Networking architecture for next-generation broadband mobile communications;
(5) Cognitive wireless mesh networking (CogMesh) and Cognitve Cloud (CogCloud);
(6) Green radio and green communications.

Honggang Zhang (张宏纲)’s Experience

• Professor

  Zhejiang University (浙江大学), Hangzhou, CHINA

  (Educational Institution; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  From October 1999 to March 2002, Dr. Honggang Zhang was with the Shin-Kawasaki Research Center, Telecommunications Advancement Organization (TAO) of Japan, as a TAO Research Fellow. From April 2002 to November 2002, he joined the TOYOTA IT Center. From December 2002 to August 2004, he has been with the UWB Research Consortium, Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan. He was the principle author and contributor for proposing DS-UWB in IEEE 802.15 WPAN standardization task group, for which he initiated the "Soft-Spectrum Adaptation (SSA)" technique and contributed to its worldwide developments. From September 2004 to February 2008, he has been with CREATE-NET, where he leaded its wireless teams in exploring Cognitive Radio (CR) and its integration with Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technologies while participated a number of European FP6/FP7 projects.

• Senior Research Scientist & Project Coordinator

  CREATE-NET, Italy, European Union (EU)

  (Non-Profit; Telecommunications industry)

  September 2004 — February 2008 (3 years 6 months)

  From September 2004 to February 2008, as a Principle Research Scientist and Project Coordinator, he has been with CREATE-NET (http://www.create-net.org/), where he leaded its wireless teams in exploring Cognitive Radio (CR) and its integration with Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technologies for dynamic spectrum access and management while participated a number of European FP6/FP7 projects - EUWB, PULSERS 2, etc.

• Expert Researcher

  National Institute of Information & Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

  (Non-Profit; Telecommunications industry)

  December 2002 — August 2004 (1 year 9 months)

  (1) Focusing on UWB wireless communications, IEEE 802.15.3a & 4a WPAN standardizations, Wireless 1394 and “1394-Over-UWB” smart home networks.
  (2) Founding member of UWB Forum and the principle author and contributor for proposing DS-UWB in IEEE 802.15 WPAN standardization task group, for which he initiated the "Soft-Spectrum Adaptation (SSA)" technique and contributed to its worldwide developments.

Honggang Zhang (张宏纲)’s Education

• Kagoshima University, Japan

  Ph.D. , Electrical and Electronic Engineering , 1994 — 1999

Additional Information

Honggang Zhang (张宏纲)’s Interests:

Cognitive Radio, Cognitive Networks, Ultra-Wideband (UWB), Cognitive Wireless Mesh Networks (CogMesh), Broadband Wireless Access, Soft-Spectrum Adaptation (SSA), Dynamic Spectrum Access, Green Communications, Green Spectrum

Honggang Zhang (张宏纲)’s Groups:

IEEE, IET, ACM, IEEE 802.11, 802.15. 802.16, 802.18, 802.20, 802.22, IEEE P1900, IEEE SCC41, ETSI, ECC SE, ITU-R, WWRF, ICT FP7

•    Telecom Professionals
•    Web 2.0
•    Digital Forensics Association (DFA)
•    Project Manager Networking Group
•    Renewable Energy Network
•    RecruitingBlogs
•    Wireless Telecommunications Worldwide
•    CIOs.com: Chief Information Officer Network
•    Ymax 4G
•    Cloud Computing
•    Telecom Jobs
•    Green
•    The Smart Office
•    The Official IEEE Communications Society
•    National Geographic Society (NGS) ♣2,500+ members ♣
•    Hangzhou Business Network (HBN)
•    FP7 Consortium - Project - Partner - Business Idea
•    Web 2.0 for Nonprofit Organizations
•    The IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
•    www.AlternativePowerCareers.com
•    Cloud Security Alliance
•    IEEE ComSoc - Technical Committee on Communication Systems Integration and Modeling (CSIM TC)
•    Cognitive Radio
•    "The Network of the Future" Research Forum
•    CXO Telecommunications

Honggang Zhang (张宏纲)’s Honors:

(1) Co-Chairs, IEEE Globecom 2008 Symposium on the Selected Areas in Communications.

(2) Vice-Chair, Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN), IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc).

(3) Steering Committee, CrownCom 2006-2009 (International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications).

(4) Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Special Issue on “Achievements and the Road Ahead: The First Decade of Cognitive Radio”.

(5) Founding Member, China-Scotland Signal-Image Processing Research Academy.

(6) Founding Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chairs, IEEE CrownCom 2006.

(7) Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chairs, IEEE ISCIT 2006.

(8) Founding Editorial Board Member, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications Journal (Springer).

(9) Guest Editor, ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Special Issue on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications.

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