Qian ZHANG
Chair Professor
Electronic and Computer Engineering
About
Prof. Zhang joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Sept 2005 where she is a full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She is also serving as the co-director of Huawei-HKUST innovation lab and the director of 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 200 refereed papers in international leading journals and key conferences in the areas of wireless/Internet multimedia networking, wireless communications and networking, wireless sensor networks, and overlay networking. She is the inventor of about 30 pending International patents. Her current research is on cognitive and cooperative networks, dynamic spectrum access and management, as well as wireless sensor networks. She also participated many activities in the IETF ROHC (Robust Header Compression) WG group for TCP/IP header compression.
Research Interests
Computer networkingWireless systemsCyber-physical systemsMobile computingCybersecurity
Last updated: 4/10/2026