Zhang Yonggang received his bachelor and master degree from Harbin Engineering University, China on 2002 and 2004 respectively. He obtained PhD degree from Cardiff University, UK on 2007. Currently he is a Professor of College of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Harbin Engineering University. He is also the Director of Heilongjiang Engineering Laboratory of Navigation Instruments, deputy Director of Navigation Instrument Engineering Center of the Ministry of Education, and Member of Chinese Society of Inertial Technology. His main research areas include navigation technology and information fusion. He has published more than 170 academic papers as the first author/corresponding author. He was the recipient of the First Prize of Natural Science Award of Chinese Association of Automation, the First prize of national defense technological invention, and First prize of Heilongjiang technological invention. He won the  national and provincial talent awards, and also the award of excellent doctoral thesis supervisor from Chinese Association of Automation.