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Prof. Zhang received the B.E. degree in communication engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, China, in 1984, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in information and communication engineering from the University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He was with the Department of Electronic Engineering at NUAA from 1984 to 1987, and the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering at UEC from 1993 to 1996, all as an Assistant Professor. He was with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Nagaoka University of Technology (NUT), Niigata, Japan, as an Associate Professor, from 1996 to 2003. Currently, he is with the Department of Communication Engineering and Informatics at UEC, as a Professor. He was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, from 2000 to 2001.
Prof. Zhang received the third prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of China in 1987, and the challenge prize of 4th LSI IP Design Award of Japan in 2002. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2002 to 2004. His research interests are in the areas of digital signal and image processing, filter design theory, filter banks and wavelets, and its applications to image and video coding. Prof. Zhang is a senior member of the IEEE and IEICE of Japan.
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