拔尖人才教授，博士生导师。北京邮电大学博士，瑞士洛桑联邦理工学院（EPFL）博士后。国家级海外引进青年人才、北京市科技新星、小米青年学者。致力于研究分布式光纤传感基础原理和应用解决方案。获华为“火花奖”、国网技术发明二等奖。曾任“国际光纤传感会议（OFS）”、“亚洲通信与光子学国际会议（ACP）”等国际会议技术委员会委员、“中国光纤传感大会”分布式传感专题共主席。发表国际论文90余篇，含顶刊Nature Communications、Optica等，以及领域权威会议OFS PDP论文。负责多项国家自然科学基金委项目、173项目课题和校企联合项目。

代表性成果：

[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).