Xinping Zhang finished his PhD at the Department of Physics, University of Marburg, Germany in 2002. He worked as a postdoc at the Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Germany from 2003 to 2004 and at the Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK from 2004 to 2006. He has been a professor at Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) since the end 2006. He leads the Institute of Information Photonics Technology at BJUT. His research interests include ultrafast laser technology and applications, nanophotonics and plasmonics, organic optoelectronics. He has more than 300 publications in international journals.