Dr. (John) Xiupu Zhang (张秀甫) was born in China, and received the
B.Sc., M.Sc. and
PhD. degree , all in Electrical Engineering, from Harbin Institute of Electrical Technology (now
Harbin University of Science and Technology (哈尔滨理工大学), China, in 1983,
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (北京邮电大学), China , in 1988, and
Technical University of Denmark (丹麦技术大学), Denmark, in 1996, respectively.