Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Ranplan Wireless Network Design Ltd
Professor Zhang pioneered heterogeneous networks and commercialised world-leading research through Ranplan, which he founded. Ranplan produced the world's first combined outdoor-and-indoor radio access network (RAN) planning software, enabling coordinated outdoor-and-indoor RAN planning and optimisation – a new RAN deployment process and practice. Since 2010, he has pioneered research on smart radio environments, where local electromagnetic wave propagation can be engineered using metasurfaces and transparent antennas. He also introduced the concept of wireless-friendly and energy-efficient buildings. He created the concept of building wireless performance (BWP) and established the first theoretical framework to quantify the impact of building layouts and materials on BWP.
Professor Jie Zhang FREng