Xingqi Zhang received the B.Sc. degree from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, Canada. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Applied Electromagnetics and Wireless Intelligence (ELITE) Lab at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has also been an Assistant Professor at the University College Dublin and a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto and Queen Mary University of London. His research is in the interdisciplinary areas of applied electromagnetics and wireless communications.

He has authored/co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, two white papers, and three national patents, and has received several Best Paper Awards at international symposia. He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL), IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation (MAP), and IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques (JMMCT), as well as a Technical Program Committee Member and Session Chair for several flagship conferences (e.g., IEEE AP-S/URSI, IEEE IWS, IEEE NEMO, IEEE VTC). He was the recipient of the IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award in Sensor Systems/Networks, the Petro-Canada Emerging Innovator Award, the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Early Career Award, the Irish Research Council (IRC) Research Ally Prize, the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Charlemont Award, the IEEE ICCT Outstanding Young Scholar Award, five Young Scientist Awards from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), ACES, and the Electromagnetics Academy.