Radar Signal Processing, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images Interpretation, Target Detection and Recognition, Joint Radar-Communication Systems

1. Sep. 1997-Jun. 2001, B.S. in Applied Mathematics, National University of Defense Technology of China (NUDT)
2. Sep. 2001 - Dec. 2003, M.S. in Computational Mathematics, NUDT
3. Feb. 2004 - Jun. 2008, Ph.D in Information and Communication Engineering, NUDT

1. Jun. 2008 - Jul. 2013, Lecture, Department of Mathematics, NUDT
2. Jan. 2014 - Now, Associate Prof., School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)

My current research interests focus on signal processing for joint radar-communication systems, target detection and recognition for SAR images with deep learning methods.

1. Editorial Committee Member of Journal of Radar
2. IEEE Senior Member

1. Digital Fundamentals
2. Remote Sensing Information Processing (in English)

26. Z. Du, Z. Zhang*, and W. Yu, “Information theoretic waveform design for OFDM radar-communication coexistence in Gaussian mixture interference,” IET Radar Sonar & Navigation, vol. 13, no. 11, pp. 2063-2070, 2019.
25. D. Huang, X. Guo, Z. Zhang*, W. Yu, and T.-K. Truong, “Full-aperture azimuth spatial-variant autofocus based on contrast maximization for highly squinted synthetic aperture radar,” IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2019. (online available)
24. J. Zhao, M. Datcu, Z. Zhang, H. Xiong, and W. Yu, “Contrastive-regulated CNN in the complex domain: A method to learn physical scattering signatures from flexible PolSAR images,” IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 57, no. 12, pp. 10116-10135, 2019.
23. J. He, Z. Zhang*, C. Gu, T. Shu, and W. Yu, “Cumulant-based 2-D direction estimation using an acoustic vector sensor array,” IEEE Trans. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2019. (online available)
22. C. Wu, Z. Zhang*, X. Liang, L. Chen, W. Yu, and T.-K. Trunong, “Fast 3-D algorithm based on unitary transformation and real-valued sparse representation for MIMO array SAR,” IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 7033-7047, 2019.
21. J. Zhao, W. Guo, Z. Zhang*, and W. Yu, “A coupled convolutional neural network for small and densely clustered ship detection in SAR images,” Science China - Information Science, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 042301:1-16, 2019.
20. Z. Zhang, W. Guo, S. Zhu and W. Yu, “Towards arbitrary-oriented ship detection with rotated region convolutional neural network,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 1745-1749, 2018.
19. Z. Du, Z. Zhang*, and W. Yu, “An adaptive OFDM detection strategy for range and Doppler spread targets in non-Gaussian clutter,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 61223-61232, 2018.
18. J. Zhao, Z. Zhang*, W. Yu, and T.-K. Truong, “A cascade coupled convolutional neural network guided visual attention method for ship detection from SAR images,” IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 50693-50708, 2018.
17. B. Li, B. Liu, W. Guo, Z. Zhang, and W. Yu, “Ship size extraction for Sentinel-1 images based on dual-polarization fusion and nonlinear regression: Push error under one pixel ,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 4887-4905, 2018.
16. L. Huang, B. Liu, B. Li, W. Guo, W. Yu, Z. Zhang, and W. Yu, “ OpenSARShip: A dataset dedicated to sentinel-1 ship interpretation ,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing , vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 195-208, 2018.
15. Z. Zhang, J. He, T. Shu, and W. Yu, “Successive method for angle-polarization estimation with vector-sensor array ,” IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 70000304, 2018.
14. S. Liu, Z. Zhang*, and W. Yu, “A space-time coding scheme with time and frequency comb-like chirp waveforms for MIMO-SAR,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 391-403, 2017.
13. J. He, Z. Zhang, T. Shu, and W. Yu, “Direction finding of multiple partially polarized signals with a nested cross-Diople array ,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 16, pp. 1679-1682, 2017.
12. J. He, Z. Zhang, T. Shu, B. Tang and W. Yu, “Joint angleıfrequency estimation with spatiotemporal nested sampling,” IET Radar Sonar & Navigation, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1373-1378, 2017.
11. S. Liu, Z. Zhang*, and W. Yu, “Circulate shifted OFDM chirp waveform diversity design with digital beamforming for MIMO SAR,” Science China - Information Science, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 102307:1-12, 2017.
10. G. Li, N. Wang, D. Mo, R. Wang, Z. Zhang, and Y. Wu, “Inverse synthetic aperture ladar imaging with stepped-frequency continuous waveform ,” Electronics Letters, vol. 53, no. 21, pp. 1424-1426, 2017.
9. B. Liu, Z. Zhang, X. Liu, and W. Yu, “Representation and spatially adaptive segmentation for PolSAR images based on Wedgelet analysis,” IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 53, no. 9, pp. 4797-4809, 2015.
8. Z. Zhang and W. Yu,“Local-DoFs of clutter for sparse array STAP of airborne radar,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 426-433, 2015.
7. B. Liu, Z. Zhang, X. Liu, and W. Yu, “Edge extraction for polarimetric SAR images using degenerate filter with weighted maximum likelihood estimation,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 11, no. 12, pp. 2140-2144, 2014.
6. Z. Zhang, J. Zhu, and Y. Wang, “Local degrees of freedom of clutter for airborne STAP radar with subarrays”, IET Radar Sonar and Navigation, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 130-136, 2012.
5. Z. Zhang, W. Xie, W. Hu, and W. Yu, “Local degrees of freedom of airborne array radar clutter for STAP,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 97-101, 2009.
4. Z. Zhang, W. Hu, and W. Yu, “Preconditional methods for space-time adaptive processing,” Journal of Electronics of China, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 465-470, 2008.
3. Z. Zhang, W. Hu, and W. Yu, “Design of quantized amplitude weights for low sidelobe phased array antennas,” Acta Electronica Sinica, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 580-584, 2007. (in Chinese)
2. Z. Zhang, W. Hu, and W. Yu, “A real-time radar video data compression algorithm based on lifting wavelet transforms,” Acta Electronica Sinica, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 1910-1913, 2005. (in Chinese)
1. Z. Zhang and L. Cheng, “The design of m-band symmetric orthogonal wavelets with arbitrary regularity,” Acta Electronica Sinica, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 1094-1098, 2004. (in Chinese)