Dr. Honggang ZHANG - Full Professor, Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering; Co-Director, York-Zhejiang Lab for Cognitive Radio and Green Communications; Zhejiang University, China; Honorary Visiting Professor, the University of York, UK (5-year Appointment commences on 1st August 2010).
    Dr. Honggang ZHANG received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kagoshima University, Japan, in March 1999. Prior to that, he received the Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), China, in 1989, and Lanzhou University of Technology, China, in 1992, respectively. From October 1999 to March 2002, he 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, where he performed research and development on software-defined radio (SDR) with applications to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). 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, where his R&D responsibilities were focused on UWB wireless communications, IEEE 802.15.3a & 4a WPAN standardizations, Wireless 1394 and “1394-over-UWB” smart home networks. He was the 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. From September 2004 to February 2008, 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 open-spectrum wireless communications and networks evolution (i.e. CR-UWB: Ultra-Wideband Cognitive Radio) while participated a number of European FP6/FP7 projects (EUWB, PULSERS 2). 
    Dr. Honggang ZHANG is taking a leading role in the Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN) of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) as Chair. He is the Co-Chairs of IEEE Globecom 2008 Symposium on the Selected Areas in Communications (SAC). He is the founding Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chairs of CrownCom 2006 (International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications 2006) as well as the Steering Committee Member of CrownCom 2006-2009.