Zhang Ping

Zhang Ping is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, a professor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, a doctoral supervisor, and the director of the State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology. He is also the director of the Department of Broadband Communication of Peng Cheng Laboratory, the director of ZGC Institute of Ubiquitous-X Innovation and Applications (X-NET) and honorary president of China Telecom Research Institute, editor-in-chief of the Journal on Communications. He is a member of the IMT-2020 (5G) Experts Panel and the Experts Panel for China's 6G development. Zhang has received many awards and honors including the Grand Prize for the National Science and Technology Progress Award. He is one of the most well-known key contributors to the development of China-pioneered mobile communication technologies, which have been widely adopted on a global scale. His current research interests focus on semantic communications, intelligible communication systems and on-purpose networks.