Zhang,Fan is a professor with the School of Electronics, Peking University. He obtained his B.Sc. from Henan Normal University in 1996, M.Sc. from Xi'an Institute of Optics & Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999 and Ph.D from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2002, respectively. His research interests include various aspects on Photonics with emphasis on high speed optical communication.

Prof. Zhang has published about 120 academic articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences such as Optics letters, Optics Express, IEEE PTL, IEEE/OSA JLT, OFC and ECOC. He has served in Technical Program Committee of various international conferences including IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC 2014-2017), ACP 2016, IEEE ICCS 2010, and TPC Track Chair of OECC 2015. He was awarded New Century Excellent Talents in University, the Ministry of Education (2010), Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2004), Second-Class Award for Science and Technology Progress of Shaanxi Province (2000), Second-Class Award for Science and Technology Progress of Chinese Academy of Sciences (1998). Prof. Zhang is a senior member of IEEE since 2010 and a member of The Optical Society since 2008.

Prof. Zhang has been the principle investigator of five NSFC and one 863 projects. His professional achievements are highlighted as follows.

1) High speed direct-detection optical transmission: terabit Nyquist 64-QAM direct detection WDM transmission with the highest spectral efficiency 3.25 b/s/Hz; the first report of C-band 200G single photodiode direct detection transmission; the longest distance of 960km SSMF for ~100G direct detection C-band transmission; the first 250G net bit rate (the maximum bitrate ever reported) 80km direct detection transmission; the first single wavelength terabit free-space intensity modulation direct detection system employing orbital angular momentum multiplexing.

2) High speed coherent optical transmission: the first terabit coherent optical SCFDM transmission over 3170 km SSMF; the scheme of orthogonal-band-multiplexed offset-QAM for flexible optical transmission; 1.02Tb/s PDM Nyquist 32QAM over 1428km SSMF; long-distance co-propagation of QKD and terabit classical coherent optical transmission up to 80 km; XPM mitigation in high baud rate Nyquist systems.

3) Electrical equalization for linear and nonlinear impairments: theories of channel estimation and phase noise suppression in OFDM/OQAM systems; a technique of diverse vestigial sideband filtering and joint equalization for chromatic dispersion and fiber Kerr nonlinearity compensation; the first nonlinear electrical equalizer based on Volterra series which can adaptively compensate for intra-channel fiber nonlinearities in coherent optical communication systems.