Andrew Zhang
Senior Research Scientist ICT
Contact
Cnr Pembroke and Vimiera Roads,
Marsfield, NSW
Tel: +61 2 9372 4650
Email
Themes
- Broadband for Australia
Projects
- Ngara Wireless Backhaul Project
Science Area
- Communications and Signal Processing
Biography
Dr Jian (Andrew) Zhang was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in telecommunications engineering from Xi'an JiaoTong University, China, in 1996, a Master of Science degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, in 1999, a PhD degree in wireless communications from the Australian National University, in 2004. He joined in the wireless laboratory CSIRO, Sydney as a research scientist in January 2010, and before that he was a researcher in the Networked System, NICTA, Canberra.
Dr. Zhang's research interests are in the areas of signal processing and wireless communications. He has won three international prizes for his work. In NICTA, he was the leader of the Multiband OFDM UWB project, and a principal member of a 60GHz radio project, and the human performance improvement project. Dr. Zhang has published more than 60 Journal and conference papers, and delivered 6 patents. He is actively involved in the editorial board of international Journal and TPC of leading conferences. During 1999 to 2001, Dr. Zhang worked as a system and hardware engineer in ZTE Corp. in China, being involved in DSLAM and soft switch development.
Currently, he is working on system design and development for very high speed wireless backhaul systems.
Academic Qualifications
| 2004 | PhD The Australian National University, Australia, Wireless signal processing |
| 1999 | M.E. Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, telecommunication Engeering |
| 1996 | B.E. Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, Radio Engineering |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2010-present | Research Scientist in ICT centre, CSIRO, Marsfield Austrlia |
| 2004-2010 | Researcher and Project leader in NICTA, Canberra, Australia |
| 1999-2001 | System and hardware Engineer in ZTE Corp., Nanjing, China |
Achievements & Awards
| 2008 | Best paper award in International conference ISABEL 2008, Denmark |
| 2003 | Best paper award in International Workshop on Ultra Wideband Systems |
| 2003 | Student Travel Grant in IEEE ICC2003 awarded by IEEE ComSoc |
| 2001-2004 | Australian International Postgraduate Research Scholarship |
| 2001-2004 | Australian National University postgraduate and top-up scholarships |
| 2000 | Excellent Employee Fellowship awarded to the top 5% researcher in ZTE |
| 1997-1998 | Excellent Graduate Student Fellowship awarded to the top 3% students in Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China |
| 1992-1994 | The First Rank Fellowships awarded to the top 2% students in Xi an JiaoTong University, China |
| 1995 | The Second Rank Fellowships awarded to the top 3% students in Xi an JiaoTong University, China |
Other Highlights
| 2011 | Elected to IEEE Senior Member |
| 2011 | Appointed as Honorary Fellow in Macquarie University, Sydney |
Summary of Science & Technical Output
| Books/Book chapters | 1 |
|---|---|
| Journal | 19 |
| Refereed Conference/Workshop | 47 |
| Technical/Client Reports | 8 |
| Invited Presentations | 6 |
| Patents | 5 |
Student Supervision
| 2010 | C. Han and V. Lee, Vacation research students, CSIRO |
| 2008-present | W. Tusha, PhD student, ANU, Co-supervisor |
| 2008-present | A. Salehin, PhD student, ANU, Co-supervisor |
| 2007-2009 | W. Zhang, PhD student, ANU, Advisor |
| 2006 | W. Zhang, Master student, ANU, Co-supervisor |
| 2006-2009 | Y. Chen, PhD student, ANU, Chair supervisor panel |
| 2005 | Y. Chen, Master student, ANU, Co-supervisor |
| 2006-2009 | L. Luo, PhD student, ANU, Chair supervisor panel |
| 2006-2008 | I. Husain, PhD student, UNSW, Co-supervisor |
| 2009 | X. Zhu, Master student, ANU, Supervisor |
| 2004-2010 | A few vacation students including S. Latif, V. Chaganti, K. Cuan, ANU, Supervisor |
Science Citizenship
| 2011, | Elected to IEEE Senior Member |
| 2008-present | Editorial board of the International Journal of Ultra Wideband Communications and Systems |
| 2006-present | TPC member in: GlobeCom 2011, VTC 2011 Spring, ICCCN 2010, ISCIT 2010, UWBST2010 and APSIPA 2010, the International Symposium on Wireless and Pervasive Computing 2009, IASTED International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications (2008, 2009), IEEE International Conference on Ultra Wideband Systems 2006, 2010 and AusWireless’06 |
| 2010 | Invited speaker in AusCTW2010 |
| 2008 | Invited speaker in ACoRN OFDM workshop, Melbourne |
| 2006 | Invited speaker in AusCTW2006 |
| 2005 | Invited Plenary talk and session chair in 2005 UWB conference in China |
| 2006 | Session Chair in VTC’06 and AusWireless’06 |
| 2006 | Tutorial in AusWireless’06 and Wireless winter school 2005, Canberra |
| 2004-present | Delivered more than 30 technical talks in industry, universities and conferences |
Top 10 Publications
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| Ying Chen, Jian (Andrew) Zhang and Dhammika Jayalath, "Estimation and Compensation of Clipping Noise in OFDMA Systems", IEEE Trans. On Wireless Comm., 9(2), pp. 523-527, Feb. 2010 – first effective method for clipping compensation in OFDMA systems |
| Lin Luo, Jian (Andrew) Zhang, Zhenning Shi, "Advanced Receiver Design for Quadrature OFDMA Systems", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, pp. 1-9, Jan. 2009 – Advanced receivers enabling significant performance improvement for Quadrature OFDMA systems |
| Jian (Andrew) Zhang, Xiaojing Huang, Tony Cantoni and Jay Guo, “Sidelobe Suppression with Orthogonal Projection for Multicarrier Systems”, Vol. 60 (2), IEEE Trans. On Communications, Feb. 2012 -- Low complexity and efficient sidelobe suppression scheme implemented in Ngara wireless backhaul system |
| Jian (Andrew) Zhang, Lin Luo, Zhenning Shi, "Quadrature OFDMA Systems based on layered FFT Structure", IEEE Trans. On Communications, pp. 850 - 860, vol. 57, no. 3, March 2009 – Innovative OFDMA systems promising for future broadband communications |
| Jian (Andrew) Zhang, Xiaojing Huang, “Autocorrelation Based Coarse Timing with Differential Normalization Factor”, Vol. 11 (2), IEEE Trans. On Wireless Communications, Feb. 2012 -- Very robust timing scheme suitable for systems with small CFO |
| Jian Zhang, Dhammika Jayalath and Ying Chen, "Asymmetric OFDM Systems Based on Layered FFT Structure ", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, pp 812 -815, Nov. 2007 – Innovative layered FFT structure which enables the development of new OFDM systems is presented. Asymmetric OFDM systems are very flexible in balancing complexity and performance. |
| J. Zhang, R. A. Kennedy, and T. D. Abhayapala, "Cramer-Rao lower bounds for the synchronization of UWB signals", EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Vol.3, 426 - 438, 2005 – Defined the performance bounds for the synchronization of UWB signals; more than 50 citations (combined with its conference version) according to Google scholar. |
| J. Zhang, R. A. Kennedy, and T. D. Abhayapala, "Conditions and performance of ideal RAKE reception for UWB signals in Lognormal-fading channels", International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, vol. 10(4), Oct. 2003, pp.193-200 (Best paper award, extended version of the conference paper). – More than 40 citations according to Google scholar. |
| J. Zhang, T. D. Abhayapala, and R. A. Kennedy, "Performance of Ultra Wideband correlator receiver using Gaussian monocycles," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC), vol. 3, May 2003, pp. 2192-2196. – More than 40 citations according to Google Scholar. |
| Huang, Xiaojing; Guo, Jay; Zhang, Andrew; Dyadyuk, Val, A Multi-Gigabit Microwave Backhaul, IEEE Communications Magazine, to appear, 2012 |
Links
- List of publications
- Draft version of the paper "Sidelobe Suppression with Orthogonal Projection for Multicarrier Systems", accepted by IEEE Trans. on Communications, Aug. 2011
- ResearchID publication and citation list
- Multicarrier Communications (An advanced course to postgraduate that I delivered, with course notes, links and reading materials available on the website)