Distinguished Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor.
Received a Ph.D. from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and conducted postdoctoral research at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Recognized as a National-Level Youth Talent under the Overseas High-Level Talent Introduction Program, Beijing Science and Technology Rising Star, and Xiaomi Young Scholar.

Dedicated to fundamental research and application-driven solutions in distributed fiber optic sensing. 

Has served as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for international conferences such as the Optical Fiber Sensors Conference (OFS) and the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), and as a co-chair of the Distributed Sensing Subcommittee at the China Optical Fiber Sensing Conference.

Published over 90 international research papers, including in top journals such as Nature Communications and Optica, and presented Post-Deadline Papers (PDPs) at the authoritative OFS conference.

Principal investigator of multiple projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the 173 Program, and industry-academia collaborative programs.

Representative Achievements:

[1] X. Sun, Z. Yang, X. Hong, S. Zaslawski, S. Wang, M. A. Soto, X. Gao, J. Wu, and L. Thévenaz, "Genetic-optimised aperiodic code for distributed optical fibre sensors," Nature Communications 11(1), 5774 (2020).

[2] S. Zaslawski, Z. Yang, and L. Thévenaz, "Distributed optomechanical fiber sensing based on serrodyne analysis," Optica 8(3), 388–395 (2021).

[3] X. Sun, Z. Yang, X. Hong, S. Jin, J. Luo, M. A. Soto, and J. Wu, "Ultra-long Brillouin optical time-domain analyzer based on distortion compensating pulse and hybrid lumped–distributed amplification," APL Photonics 7(12), 126107 (2022).

[4] S. Jin, Z. Yang, X. Hong, and J. Wu, "Analytical Signal-to-Noise Ratio Model on Frequency-Scanned Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry," Journal of Lightwave Technology 42(16), 5786–5796 (2024).

[5] Q. Zhang, Z. Yang, X. Hong, and J. Wu, "Modeling the Demodulated Phase Precision of Standard Heterodyne-Detection Phase-Sensitive Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry," Journal of Lightwave Technology 43(5), 2418–2427 (2025).