Dr. Yimin D. Zhang graduated from the Northwest Telecommunications Engineering Institute (now Xidian University), Xi'an, China, in 1982, and received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, in 1985 and 1988, respectively.

Dr. Zhang joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, where is a Professor. He joined the faculty of the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in1988. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Senior Technical Manager at the Communications Laboratory Japan, Kawasaki, Japan. From 1997 to 1998 he was a Researcher at the ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan (ATR stands for Advanced Telecommunications Research group). From 1998 to 2015, he was with the Villanova University, Villanova, PA, where he was a Research Professor at the Center for Advanced Communications and directed the Wireless Communications and Positioning Lab and the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Lab.

Dr. Zhang's research interests are in the areas of statistical signal and array processing, compressive sensing, machine learning, information theory, target localization/tracking/imaging/classification, time-frequency analysis, and image processing, with applications to radar sensing, wireless communications and networking, and satellite navigation. His publications include 140+ journal papers, 18 book chapters, and 300+ peer-reviewed conference papers. He co-edited a book, Information-Theoretic Radar Signal Processing, published by Wiley-IEEE Press in 2024. His publications received the 2018 and 2021 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Awards, the 2016 IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation Premium Award, the 2017 IEEE AESS Mimno Award, the 2019 IET Communications Premium Award, and the 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award for Signal Processing. He holds a US patent and a Japanese patent.

Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee and a member of the EURASIP Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems (SPMuS) Technical Area Committee. He is a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and serves on the editorial board of the Signal Processing (Elsevier) journal. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and Journal of the Franklin Institute.

Dr. Zhang has been a Principal Investigator and a Co-Principal Investigator of more than $7M contracts and grants from National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Army Research Lab (ARL), and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).