Angela Yingjun Zhang

Angela Yingjun Zhang is currently an Associate Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include mainly wireless communications systems and smart power systems, in particular optimization techniques for such systems. 

She is an Executive Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. She is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. Previously, she served many years as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Security and Communications Networks (Wiley), and a Feature Topic in the IEEE Communications Magazine. She is currently the Chair of IEEE ComSoc Emerging Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications. She was a Co-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Multimedia Communications Technical Committee and the IEEE Communication Society GOLD Coordinator. 

Angela was the co-recipient of the 2014 IEEE ComSoc APB Outstanding Paper Award, the 2013 IEEE SmartgridComm Best Paper Award, and the 2011 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award on Wireless Communications. She was the recipient of the Young Researcher Award from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. As the only winner from engineering science, she has won the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2006, conferred by the Hong Kong Institution of Science. She is a Fellow of IET.