2000 年在西安交通大学电信学院获工学学士学位，同年9 月进入清华大学电子工程系学习，2002 年获硕士学位并继续攻读博士学位，遴选进入中日国家重点实验室研究生联合培养项目，2005 年获清华大学工学博士学位，2006 年获日本国家信息学研究所（NII）信息学博士（理学博士）学位。

毕业后留校工作（航天航空学院），先后任讲师、副教授、博士生导师、特别研究员、教授。2011年9月至2012年8月在中国商飞北京民用飞机技术研究中心总体部挂职副部长（负责大型民机多电系统研究团队）。

IET会士（IET Fellow）、IEEE高级会员、IEICE高级会员

航空宇航电子系统、空间通信、导航、探测、制导

长期致力于空间信息传输和信号检测前沿基础理论研究和关键技术研究。其中，电磁波轨道角动量（OAM）长距离传输基础理论成果达到国际领先水平，发明了旋转OAM电磁波长距离空间传输方法，完成世界最长距离电磁波OAM传输实验（2016年地面27.5公里传输，2018年机载172公里传输），开创我国在国际上该领域研究发展新局面；提出通信导航频谱动态优化共享方法，突破飞行器通信导航一体化数据链技术，解决飞行器宽带数据链通信导航频谱共用难题；提出磁通信与定位一体化方法，突破系统和装备关键技术，打破国外技术垄断，社会经济效益显著。作为项目负责人获得国家重大专项、自然科学基金重点项目支持。

授课：
《航电理论基础》，本科生32学时学位课（30310822）；
《飞行器制导导航与控制》，研究生48学时学位课（80310153）；
《飞行器电子系统》，研究生48学时学位课（80310253）

2006年法国赛峰科技奖（SAFRAN Award）、2007年Chinacom优秀论文奖（排名2）、IEEE/AIAA DASC2009和2013优秀论文奖（排名1）、2013年中国产学研合作创新成果奖（排名1）、2014年中国质量评价协会科技创新奖（排名1）、2014年北京市科学技术二等奖（排名5）、2015年北京市物联网感智创新大赛银奖（排名1）、2015年北京市发明创新大赛银奖（排名1）

授权专利28项，近年发表的代表性论文如下：

[1] Chao ZHANG, Pengfei XU, Xuefeng JIANG, “Detecting superposed orbital angular momentum states in the magnetic field by the crystal diffraction,” accepted by European Physical Journal Plus, Dec. 2020,

[2] Chao ZHANG, Pengfei XU, Xuefeng JIANG, “Vortex electron generated by microwave photon with orbital angular momentum in a magnetic field,” AIP Advances, vol. 10, no. 10, Oct. 2020 (DOI: 10.1063/5.0019899).

[3] Chao ZHANG, Xuefeng JIANG, “Signal to noise ratio improvement by vortex wave detection with rotational antenna,” accepted by IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Early Access in IEEE Xplore, DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.3016173, August 2020.

[4] Chao ZHANG, Xuefeng JIANG, “Secure high-speed spread spectrum transmission system with orbital angular momentum,” IET Communications, Vol. 14, issue 11, July, 2020, pp. 1709-1717.

[5] Yufei Zhao, Chao Zhang, “Distributed Antennas Scheme for Orbital Angular Momentum Long-Distance Transmission,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 19, no. 2, Feb. 2020, pp. 332-336.

[6] Chao ZHANG, Jin JIANG, “Angular momentum spectrum of electromagnetic wave,” IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, Vol.E103-A, No.4, April 2020, pp.715-717.

[7] Chao ZHANG, Yufei ZHAO, “Orbital angular momentum nondegenerate index mapping for long distance transmission,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 11, Nov. 2019, pp. 5027-5036.

[8] Chao ZHANG, Xuefeng JIANG and Dong Chen, “RCS promotion in orbital angular momentum imaging radar with rotational antenna,” IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol. 13, no. 12, Dec. 2019, pp. 2140-2144.

[9] Yufei Zhao, Chao Zhang, “Compound angular lens for radio orbital angular momentum coaxial separation and convergence,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 18, no. 10, Oct. 2019, pp. 2160-2164.

[10] Yufei Zhao, Chao Zhang, “Orbital angular momentum beamforming for index modulation with partial arc reception,” IET Electronics Letters, vol. 55, no. 24, Nov. 2019, pp. 1271-1273.

[11] Hong WU, Pengfei XU, Xuefeng JIANG, Chao ZHANG, “High precision remote ranging method with step frequency signal magnetic resonance,” IEEE Magnetics Letters, vol. 9, 1303704, May 2018.

[12] Hong WU, Xuefeng JIANG, Pengfei XU, Chao ZHANG, “Efficient integration of magnetic positioning and stable communications,” IEEE Magnetics Letters, vol. 9, 1304404, July 2018.

[13] Chao ZHANG, Yufei ZHAO, Yaxin ZHANG, Fengfei LI, Shiquan JIANG, “Position aided open-loop passive magnetic MIMO transmission,” IET Communications, vol. 11, no. 16, Nov. 2017, pp. 2449-2457.

[14] Chao ZHANG, Dong CHEN, Xuefeng JIANG, “RCS diversity of electromagnetic wave carrying orbital angular momentum”, Scientific Reports, Nature Publication Group, Nov. 2017.

[15] Chao ZHANG, Lu MA, “Detecting the orbital angular momentum of electro-magnetic waves using virtual rotational antenna”, Scientific Reports, Nature Publication Group, July, 2017.

[16] Chao ZHANG, Dong CHEN, “Large-scale orbital angular momentum radar pulse generation with rotational antenna”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, June 2017, Vol. 16, pp. 2316-2319.

[17] Chao ZHANG, Lu MA, “Trellis coded OAM-QAM union modulation with single-point receiver”, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 4, 2017, pp. 690-693.

[18] Chao ZHANG, Lu MA, “Millimetre-wave with rotational orbital angular momentum”, Scientific Reports, Nature Publication Group, September, 2016.

[19] Chao ZHANG, Lu MA, Keke PANG, “Stable A/G MIMO Transmission Aided by Open Loop Calibrated Channel Estimation and Adaptive Pre-Coding”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 65, no. 10, Oct. 2016, pp. 8806-8811.

[20] Chao ZHANG, Yaxin ZHANG, Jialuo XIAO, Junzhou YU, “Aeronautical central cognitive broadband air-to-ground communications”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 33, no. 5, May 2015, pp. 946-957.

[21] Chao ZHANG, “Cognitive non-continuous carrier interferometry orthogonal signal division multiplex transmission in autonomous vehicular communications”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 29, no. 1, Jan. 2011, pp. 37-47.

[22] Chao ZHANG, Keke PANG, “Synchronization sequence generated by modified Park algorithm for NC-OFDM transmission”, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 22, No. 4, April, 2015, pp. 385-389.

[23]  Chao ZHANG, Keke PANG, Lu MA, “Interpolated airborne MIMO antenna array”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 14, Jan. 2015, pp. 72 – 75.

[24]  Chao ZHANG, Keke PANG, “Two-dimensional circle antenna layout for aeronautical MIMO communications”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 12, Dec. 2013, pp. 1566-1569.

[25]  Chao ZHANG, Junzhou YU, “Multiple access points deployment optimization in cabin wireless communications”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 12, Oct. 2013, pp. 1220-1223.

[26]  Chao ZHANG, Junzhou YU, “Compressive sensing wireless channel modeling with digital map”, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 12, March 2013, pp. 349-352.