Dr. Ning Zhang is a Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Windsor. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and subsequently completed postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto. His research interests span connected vehicles, mobile edge computing, wireless networking, and security. Dr. Zhang is a College Member of the Royal Society of Canada, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE, and a Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science).

He served as the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committees Newsletter (TCN) and is the Founding EiC of the Journal of Pervasive Intelligence and Internet of Things. He also serves/served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking; and a TPC/General chair for numerous international conferences, such as IEEE VTC, ICCC, and SAGC. He received several Best Paper Awards from international conferences and journals.