南京邮电大学教授，博士生导师。 曾获江苏特聘教授、江苏省“六大人才高峰”高层次人才选拔培养对象、欧盟玛丽居里学者、日本文部科学省GCOE(Global Center of Excellence)研究员等荣誉称号。博士毕业于上海交通大学，先后任北京邮电大学信息光子学与光通信国家重点实验室博士后，日本东北大学电气通信研究所GCOE研究员，土耳其Bilkent大学物理系研究员，英国阿斯顿大学光子技术研究所玛丽居里学者。主持或参与国家基金委重大研究计划、面上项目等。

研究方向：激光技术、光纤传感、光通信和光信号处理等。主要成果： 

(1)Zuxing Zhang, Daniel Popa, Valentin Wittwer , Silvia milana , Tawfique Hasan , Zhe Jiang , Andrea C. Ferrari , F. Ömer Ilday, “All-fiber nonlinearity- and dispersion-managed dissipative solitonnanotube mode-locked laser,” Applied Physics Letters, 107(24): 868, 2015. 

(2)Zuxing Zhang*, Chengbo Mou, Zhijun Yan, Yongjin Wang, Kaiming Zhou, and Lin Zhang, “Switchable dual-wavelength Q-switched and mode-locked fiber lasers using a large-angle tilted fiber grating,” Optics Express, 23(2): 1353-1360, 2015. 

(3)Zuxing Zhang*, Zhijun Yan, Kaiming Zhou, and Lin Zhang, “All-fiber 250 MHz fundamental repetition rate pulsed laser with tilted fiber grating polarizer,” Laser Physics Letters, 12(04): 045102, 2015. 

(4)Zuxing Zhang*, Lei Wang, and Yongjin Wang, “Sub-100 fs and Passive Harmonic Mode-Locking of Dispersion-Managed Dissipative Fiber Laser With Carbon Nanotubes,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, 31(23): 3719-3725, 2013. 

(5)Zuxing Zhang, Chengbo Mou, Zhijun Yan, Kaiming Zhou, Lin Zhang, and Sergei Turitsyn, “Sub-100 fs mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser using a 45°-tilted fiber grating,” Optics Express, 21(23): 28297-28303, 2013. 

(6)Zuxing Zhang*, Ç. Senel, R. Hamid, and F. Ömer Ilday, “Sub-50 fs all-fiber-integrated Yb-doped laser with anomalous dispersion photonic crystal fiber,” Optics Letters, 38(6): 956-958, 2013. 

(7)Zuxing Zhang*, B. Öktem, and F. Ömer Ilday, “All-fiber-integrated soliton-similariton laser with in-line fiber filter,” Optics Letters, 37(17): 3489-3491, 2012. 

(8)Zuxing Zhang*, Zhongwei Xu, and Liang Zhang, “Tunable and switchable dual-wavelength dissipative soliton generation in an all-normal-dispersion Yb-doped fiber laser with birefringence fiber filter,” Optics Express, 20(24): 26736-26742, 2012.