Honggang Zhang is the Head of Wireless Area at CREATE-NET (www.create-net.org), Italy, where he is currently leading the wireless R&D group in exploring next-generation cognitive Ultra-Wideband (UWB) wireless communications and networking technologies.

He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kagoshima University, Japan, in 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 in 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 job responsibilities were focused on UWB wireless communications, IEEE 802.15.3a & 4a WPAN standardizations, Wireless 1394 and “1394-Over-UWB” home networks. He is the founding member of UWB Forum (www.uwbforum.org) and the principle author and contributor for proposing DS-UWB in IEEE 802.15 WPAN standardization task group.

Mailing Address:
Head of Wireless Area
CREATE-NET
Via Solteri 38
38100 Trento
ITALY
Telephone (Business): +39-0461-828584
Fax (Business): +81-0461-421157
E-mail: honggang.zhang@create-net.org