Mr. Lin Zhang is a professor and doctoral supervisor of Tsinghua University. He obtained a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University in 1998, and a master's and doctoral degree in information and communication engineering from Tsinghua University in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Mr. Zhang was a visiting professor at Stanford University in 2011 and a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley during 2011- 2014. His research interests include communication networks, wireless sensor networks, sensor data mining, and artificial intelligence systems.
In recent years, he made several breakthroughs in the implementation and development processes of many National Natural Science Foundation projects, "863" Projects and major national engineering, and has played important roles in the Olympic Game related projects as well as the promotion of smart city informatization.
He has served as Chairman of the Graduate School Student Association of Tsinghua University, Executive Chairman of the National Association of Students, Deputy Director of the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University, and has been awarded as "Excellent Teachers" title in Tsinghua University Graduate School. He is a member of the Chinese institute of Electronics (Information Theory Branch), and a senior member of the IEEE. He has published more than 100 academic papers in journals and conferences in China and at abroad, and has won the IEEE / ACM Sensys 2010, 2016, CASE 2013, IPSN 2014, and IEEE PES2017 Best Paper / Technical Presentation Award.