---
type: Academic advisor
title: Angela Yingjun Zhang
description: CUHK Information Engineering professor and doctoral advisor of Xinbao Qiao.
tags:
  - en
  - person
  - advisor
  - academic-advisor
timestamp: '2026-05-05T21:15:18+08:00'
modified: '2026-07-02T20:03:20+08:00'
content_hash: 'sha256:4d88d219cff179aa32b1e44a28613a8f8dbab0dcfec3c4d20d5d51dc790e7d90'
reviewed_at: '2026-07-02T20:03:20+08:00'
review_due: '2026-12-29'
name: Angela Yingjun Zhang
summary: CUHK Information Engineering professor and doctoral advisor of Xinbao Qiao.
occupation:
  - Professor
  - IEEE Fellow
affiliation:
  - label: 'Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong'
    url: /wiki/The_Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kong/
focus: Optimization and learning in 5G and 6G wireless communication systems
links:
  - label: Official CUHK profile
    url: 'https://staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~yjzhang/'
---
**Angela Yingjun Zhang** is a Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and an IEEE Fellow.[^cuhk-profile] Her official homepage places her work in wireless communications and networking, with emphasis on optimization and learning in 5G and 6G wireless communication systems.[^cuhk-about]

## Biography

Zhang is a faculty member in [[The_Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kong|The Chinese University of Hong Kong]]'s Department of Information Engineering. Her official biography states that she received a PhD from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2004 and is a Fellow of both IEEE and IET. The same page records service roles across IEEE communications venues and editorial boards.

## Research

Her research pages list wireless communications and networking as the main area. The specific topics include machine learning and AI in wireless communication and networking, convex and non-convex optimization, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, massive MIMO, semantic and task-oriented communications, and 5G and 6G wireless technologies. In this wiki, these topics form the institutional context for Qiao's [[AI_and_Networks|AI and networks]] direction.

## Connection to Qiao

Zhang is [[Xinbao_Qiao|Xinbao Qiao]]'s doctoral advisor at CUHK. This advisor relation is used in the biography to connect Qiao's earlier data-centric machine-learning work with a doctoral emphasis on networked AI systems, decentralized learning, and communication-aware reliability.

## See also

- [[Xinbao_Qiao|Xinbao Qiao]]
- [[The_Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kong]]
- [[AI_and_Networks]]
- [[Distributed_Learning]]

[^cuhk-profile]: Angela Yingjun Zhang's [official CUHK homepage](https://staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~yjzhang/) lists her as Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and as an IEEE Fellow.

[^cuhk-about]: Her [About](https://staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~yjzhang/About.html) and [Research](https://staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~yjzhang/Research.html) pages describe current interests in optimization and learning for 5G and 6G wireless communication systems and list the research topics summarized here.
