Bio

Junqing Zhang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2009 and 2012, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronics and electrical engineering from Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, U.K., in 2016. From February 2016 to January 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Queen’s University Belfast. From February 2018 to May 2026, he was a Tenure-Track Fellow, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), and subsequently Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) with the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K. Since June 2026, he has been a Reader (Associate Professor) with the University of Liverpool. His research interests include the Internet of Things, wireless security, physical-layer security, secret key generation, radio-frequency fingerprint identification, and wireless sensing. Dr. Zhang was a co-recipient of the Best Workshop Paper Award at IEEE WCNC 2025. He serves as a Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.