Prof Qian Zhang

Tencent Professor of Engineering & Chair Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Prof Zhang received her BS, MS and PhD degrees from Wuhan University, China in Computer Science. She is currently serving as the co-director of the Huawei-HKUST innovation lab and is the Director of the Digital Life Research Center of HKUST. Before that, she was in Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, from July 1999, where she was the research manager of the Wireless and Networking Group. Prof Zhang has published more than 300 refereed papers in international leading journals and key conferences in the areas of mobile system, Internet of Things in Healthcare, next-generation wireless networking and wireless/Internet multimedia networking. She is a Fellow of IEEE for "contribution to the mobility and spectrum management of wireless networks and mobile communications”.