Qinqing Zhang received her B.S. and M.S.E. degrees in electronics engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. She joined the Milton Eisenhower Research Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) in May 2007. Prior to that, she was with Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent Technologies in New Jersey from 1998 to 2007. She is the co-author of the book “Design and Performance of 3G Wireless Networks and Wireless LANs” (Springer-Sbm, 2005), and co-author of book chapters in The Handbook of Computer Networks (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007), and VoIP Handbook – Applications, Technologies, Reliability, and Security (CRC Press, 2009). She has published numerous papers in IEEE journals and conferences. She has more than 30 awarded and pending patent applications in the area of radio resource management, media access and radio link control, Ethernet and IP networking. Her current research interests are mobile ad-hoc networks, cooperative communications and networks, and underwater acoustic communication systems and networks.

Dr. Zhang is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including the Bell Labs President’s Gold Award in 2002. She is a senior member of IEEE. She serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. She was the co-chair of workshop on “Cooperative Communications and Networking - Theory, Practice and Applications” for ICC2008, and the track organizer and chair in Milcom2007, Milcom2008, Milcom2009, and Milcom2010. She has been serving in technical program committees of various IEEE conferences, including IEEE Infocom, Globecom, ICC, WCNC, VTC, MWC, ICCNC, etc.

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