Researcher

Dr. Jian (Andrew) Zhang is a researcher within the Wireless Signal Processing Program of National ICT Australia. He is also an adjunct staff of the Australian National University. His research interest is in signal processing for wireless communications, particularly in  multicarrier and ultra wideband systems. He is one of the leading UWB researchers in Australia.

Dr. Zhang has extensive experience in hardware, network and system design in narrowband and broadband digital communications, and demonstrated experience in TI’s DSP systems and Motorola’s microprocessors. He worked as a system engineer in the leading communications company, ZTE, in China from 1999 to 2001. In 2004, he joined NICTA as a project leader of the "ultra-wideband transceiver" project. He was also a principal contributor of the "Gigabit wireless" project. Dr. Zhang has promoted active collaboration with industry and research institutes, including Agere Australia and CSIRO. 

Dr. Zhang has won two international prizes for his work, and delivered 5 invention disclosures within the last two years. He has published 30 Journal and conference papers. His current research focus is on

·  Ultra Wideband Communications and Location systems.
.  Asymmetric OFDM and Quadrature OFDMA Systems
·   Combination of Beamforming and MIMO technologies
·   Digital compensation of RF distortion in broadband (OFDM) systems
·   Precise Localization techniques for multiple users
·   Novel technology and system for Body area networks

For more details, please refer to his homepage at http://users.rsise.anu.edu/~jian.

Contacts:  +612 6125 6262; Andrew.Zhang@nicta.com.au.