

Ning Zhang
- Associate Professor, ECE, University of Windsor
- Email: ning.zhang AT uwindsor.ca
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Research Interests
- Wireless networking, AI for networking, Edge computing
- Internet of Vehicles, Internet of things
Bio
Dr. Ning Zhang is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Windsor. He received the Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada, in Jan. 2015. After that, he was a postdoc research fellow at University of Waterloo and University of Toronto, respectively. His research interests include connected vehicles, mobile edge computing, wireless networking, and security. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc and a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science).
He serves/served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He also serves/served as a TPC/General chair for numerous conferences. He received several Best Paper Awards from conferences and journals, such as IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE ICCC, IEEE WCSP, and Journal of Communications and Information Networks. He serves as the Vice Chair for IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks and IEEE Technical Committee on Big Data.
Honors and Awards
- Canada Research Chair
- IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer
- Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science)
- World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford University), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Awards (UWindsor), 2022, 2023
- AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Internet of Things for outstanding and vibrant contributions to this field over the decade (2013-2022)
- IEEE Computer Society TCSVC Rising Star Award
- IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals Outstanding Nominee Award
- Best Paper Award of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee Cloud Computing-CCF 2023
- Best Paper Award of EAI WiSATS 2023
- Best Paper Award of IEEE ICCC 2022
- Best Paper Award of IEEE ICFTIC 2021
- Best Paper Award of EAI MONAMI 2021
- Best Paper Award of IEEE ICC 2019
- Best Paper Award of IEEE Technical Committee on TAOS 2019
- Best Paper Award of IEEE ICCC 2019
- Best Paper Award of Journal of Communications and Information Networks 2018
- Best Paper Award of IEEE WCSP 2015
- Best Paper Award of IEEE GLOBECOM 2014
- IEEE Senior Member 2018
- NSERC PDF Award 2016