Jinyun Zhang is an electrical engineer whose work has included

wireless network A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes. Wireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and business installations avoid the costly process of introducing c ...

sensor network Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental c ...

s, 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 Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric US Holdings, Inc., which, in its turn, is the principal subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric in the United States. MERL is the North American arm of the Corpora ...

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Education and career

Zhang has a bachelor's degree in radio electronics from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbreviation, abbr. THU) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Minis ...

in China, and taught as a lecturer at Tsinghua University until 1985. She went to the University of Ottawa in Canada for doctoral study in electrical engineering, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1991. 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.

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". She is also a Fellow of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.

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.

References

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