Young Scholar Award recipient

“The prestigious Paul Baran Young Scholar Award bestowed upon me by experts in the field encourages me to continue pushing the boundaries in fiber-wireless networking technology.”

Junwen Zhang, 2016

Current Position

Lead Architect, Next-Gen Systems, CableLabs, USA

Education

  • Ph.D., Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  • B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Young Scholar Research

High speed optical fiber transmission for future optical transport networks and next generation integrated fiber-wireless access technologies to deliver the increased network capacity and expanded coverage areas that emerging wireless standards like 5G will require.

Other Honors

  • 2013 Wang Daheng Optics Award for College Students
  • 2013 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship
  • 2012 China Scholarship Council Fellowship