Dr. Yimin D. Zhang was born in Zhejiang, China, in December 1964. He graduated from the Northwest Telecommunications Engineering Institute (now Xidian University), Xi'an, China, in 1982, and received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, in 1985 and 1988, respectively.

Dr. Zhang joined the faculty of the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in1988. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Senior Technical Manager at the Communications Laboratory Japan, Kawasaki, Japan. From 1997 to 1998 he was a Researcher at the ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan (ATR stands for Advanced Telecommunications Research group). Since 1998, he has been with the Villanova University, Villanova, PA, where he is currently a Research Professor at the Center for Advanced Communications. He is the Director of the Wireless Communications and Positioning Lab and the Director of the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Lab.

Dr. Zhang's research interests are in the areas of statistical signal and array processing for communications and radar systems, including wireless communications and networking, cooperative communications, MIMO communications and radar systems, emitter/target localization and radar imaging, optimization techniques, time-frequency analysis, jammer excision,  image processing, and RFID systems.  His publications include 40+ journal papers, 10 book chapters, and 130+ peer-reviewed conference papers. He holds a Japanese patent, and several pending US and Japanese patents.

Dr. Zhang is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and the Journal of the Franklin Institute, and serves on the editorial board of the Signal Processing (Elsevier) journal. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters in 2006-2010. He serves in a number of Technical Committees and Technical Program Committees for international conferences, including the IEEE ICC Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, IEEE Globecom Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, and SPIE Wireless Sensing and Processing Conference.  He has been included in Marquis' Who's Who in America since 2002.