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Director's Bio
Dr. Yimin 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. He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, from 1988 to 1989. From 1989 to 1997, he held senior technical management positions at the Oriental Science Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan, and the Communications Laboratory Japan Corp., Kawasaki, Japan. From 1997 to 1998 he was a Researcher at the ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. Since 1998, he has been with the Villanova University, Villanova, PA, where he is currently a Research Associate Professor at the Center for Advanced Communications, and the Director of the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Lab. Dr. Zhang's research and development interests are in the areas of adaptive signal processing for communications, radar, and RFID systems, including space-time adaptive processing (STAP), channel equalization, MIMO systems and transmit diversity, cooperative diversity and distributed space-time coding, interference cancellation, source separation and collision avoidance, direction finding, and time-frequency analysis. Dr. Zhang is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Dr. Yimin Zhang
Director
Radio Frequency Identification Lab Center for Advanced Communications
Phone: 610-519-4544
FAX: 610-519-6118

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Center for Advanced Communications
Phone: 610-519-4599
FAX:  610-519-6118
 

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