Junshan Zhang is a professor in the ECE Department at University of California Davis. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of ECE at Purdue University in Aug. 2000, and was on the faculty of ASU from 2000 to 2021. His research interests fall in the general field of information/data science and ML/AI, including edge AI, reinforcement learning, self-supervised learning, world model, continual learning, network optimization and control, with applications in connected and automated vehicles,  5G and beyond, wireless networks,  Internet of Things (IoT), and smart grid. He is fortunate to be one of the pioneering researchers in the areas of edge computing and edge AI, cross-layer optimization of wireless networks, and  cooperative relaying.

Prof. Zhang is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (class of 2024) and Fellow of the IEEE (class of 2012). He is a recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2005 and the NSF CAREER award in 2003. He received the IEEE Wireless Communication Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2016. His papers have won a few awards, including the Best Student Paper award at WiOPT 2018, the Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award of ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance 2016, the Best Paper Runner-up Award of IEEE INFOCOM 2009 and IEEE INFOCOM 2014, and the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2008 and ICC 2017. Building on his research findings, he co-founded Smartiply Inc, a Fog Computing startup company delivering boosted network connectivity and embedded artificial intelligence.

Prof. Zhang is currently  serving as Editor-in-chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He was Editor-in-chief for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications during 2019–2022. He was TPC co-chair for a number of major conferences in communication networks, including IEEE INFOCOM 2012 and ACM MOBIHOC 2015. He was the general chair for ACM/IEEE SEC 2017 and WiOPT 2016. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society.