Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Yanshen Zhang received the Ph. D. (Eng.) degree from the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School in 1957. In 1958, he founded the "Division for Navigation & Control" at Tsinghua University. In 1976, the first electrostatic gyro (ESG) and platform in China were developed under his leadership, and he was the Chief Designer of the ESG State Research Program during 1980-1990. Since 1983, he visited the University of Calgary, Stanford University, the University of Stuttgart, the Institute for Flight Guidance DFVLR, and the Munich Armed Forces University. His current interests are navigation systems, optical gyros and photonic integrated devices. He is an associate of the International Association of Geodesy, a member of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and a member of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS). His current interests are navigation systems, optical gyros and photonic integrated devices. the Vice President of the Chinese Society of Inertial Technology.
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