Jinyun Zhang

Jinyun Zhang is an electrical engineer whose work has included wireless networks, sensor networks, 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 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[1]

Education and career

Zhang has a bachelor's degree in radio electronics from Tsinghua University in China,^[1] and taught as a lecturer at Tsinghua University until 1985.^[1][2] She went to the University of Ottawa in Canada for doctoral study in electrical engineering,^[2] and completed her Ph.D. there in 1991.^[1][3]

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.^[3][2]

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".^[4] She is also a Fellow of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories.^[1]

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.^[5][6]