[2] He was elected as the Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ins 2001 for "contributions to free-space terahertz optoelectronics".
He has been involved in research using Terahertz radiation, a part of the spectrum between microwaves and infrared, and the traditional bounds of electronics, and photonics.
His major Professional Activities include: Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor-in-Chief, Springer Nature Light, Science, & Applications ’20-26; Optica (former OSA) Leadership Nominating Council, ’19-21, Editor-in-Chief of Optics Letters ’14-19, Director-at-Large, OSA ’14-16, Associate Editor of Frontier of Optoelectronics ’13-14, Topical Editor of JOSA B ‘05-11, Associate Editor-in-Chief for Chinese Optics Letters, Chinese Academy of Science Assessor, ‘00-10; Member, CLEO ‘03, CLEO ‘02, CLEO ‘99, ‘00 Program Subcommittee on Ultrafast Optics and Electronics; Chair of Physics Panel, ’99, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow Program; Board of Editorial Committee, ’99, Laser Society of Japan; Co-Chair, ’99, Conference on THz Spectroscopy and Application, SPIE; Chair, ’97, Ultrafast Optics & Electronics, LEOS Annual Meeting; Guest Editor, ’96, JSTQE on Ultrafast Electronics, Photonics and Optoelectronics; Chair, ’95-’98, Committee on Ultrafast Optics & Electronics, IEEE/LEOS; Member of the Board of Governors, ’95, IEEE/LEOS; Member of Physics Panel, ’93-present, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow Program; Co-Chair, ’93, Conference on Ultrafast Laser and Technology, SPIE; Guest editor, ’93-present, WuLi (Chinese Physics Journal); Member, ’92-’95, Committee on Ultrafast Optics & Electronics, IEEE/LEOS Dr. Zhang received 29 US patents; authored and co-authored 23 books and book chapters, >350 refereed papers; delivered >700 colloquium, seminars, invited conference presentations, and contributed conference talks.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7187-1829 Elected Foreign member of Russian Academy of Sciences ’22; Humboldt Prize, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) ‘18; Australian Academy of Science Selby Fellow (Australia) ’17; Kenneth Button Prize ’14 (Int.
Soc IRMMW-THz); William F. Meggers Award ’12 (OSA); Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award ’11 (IEEE); William H. Wiley Award ’09 (Rensselaer); the Trustee Celebration of Faculty Achievement Awards ’11, ’10, ’09, ’08, ‘07, ‘06, ’04, ‘03, ‘02, ‘01; Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Fellow of American Physics Society (APS); Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA); Heinrich Hertz Lecturer (Germany); K.C.