Xueji Zhang's Biography

Xueji Zhang, Professor & Director, University of Science and Technology Beijing

Dr. Xueji Zhang obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from Wuhan University in 1989 and 1994 respectively. He was a postdoc at the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia; the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland and at New Mexico State University from 1995 to 1999. He has over 20 years experience in sensors and biomedical research and commercialization. He joined World Precision Instruments Inc. (WPI) in 1999 as research scientist and was promoted to Vice President of Science in 2003 and Sr. Vice President of Science in 2004. In 2009, he was recruited by Chinese Government via the “Global Talent recruitment program” and was appointed as National Professor( the highest honor ) at University of Science & Technology Beijing. Currently, he is director, at Center for BioEngineering & Sensing technology, University of Science & Technology Beijing. He has authored over 300 papers, 8books and 60 patents. His research was cited over 8000 times and his H-index is 45. He has developed numerous biomedical sensors, instruments and devices for commercialization. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of American Journal of Biomedical Sciences and has been a member of the advisory editor board of 19 other international journals. He has received numerous awards and honors including academician of Russian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of Aimbe, Fellow of RCS, and W. Simon Fellow of ICSC-World lab, United Nations.