Zhen Yan is a Research Professor at Shanghai Astronomical
Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China. He holds a Bachelor’s
degree in Physics from Liaocheng University (2004), a Master’s degree in
Astrophysics from Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences/Xinjiang
Astronomical Observatory (2007), and a Doctorate in Astrophysics from Graduate
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences/Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
(2012). He worked as an Assistant Professor at Shanghai Astronomical
Observatory in 2012, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014, and then to
Professor in 2022. His primary research interests are radio astronomy and
pulsars.
Dr. Zhiqiang Shen is a renowned radio astronomer who
specializes in observational techniques and its application in astrophysics. He
completed his Bachelor’s degree from the Department of Astronomy at Nanjing
University in 1986, followed by a Master’s degree in astrophysics from the
Department of Geophysics at Peking University in 1989. In 1996, he earned his
Doctor of Science degree from the Shanghai Observatory of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences. Dr. Shen worked as a foreign researcher at the National
Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Japan Institute of Astronautical
Science from July 1998 to September 2002. He also served as a Visiting
Scholar at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica,
Taiwan, China. In February 2018, he was appointed director of the Shanghai
Observatory. Dr. Shen has won several accolades throughout his career,
including the Young Scientist Award of the International Union of Radio
Sciences (URSI), a National Candidate for the New Century, the title of “Excellent
Teacher” of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a special
government allowance from the State Council, the 10th Shanghai Science and
Technology Elite, the 8th Shanghai Advanced Worker, Shanghai Natural Science Peony
Award, Shanghai Leading Talent, and Top Ten Outstanding Scientific and
Technological Workers of China Electronics Society, among others.
Rongbing Zhao
received the M.S. degree from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Ürümqi, China, in 2006. He is currently a Professor with
the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai,
China. His current research interests include VLBI technology and large radio
telescope control systems. In recent years, he has been engaged in the
development of Tianma Radio Telescope control system software and FAST VLBI
control system software.
Qinghui Liu earned his B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering from
the East China Engineering Institute in 1988. He then pursued M.Eng. and Ph.D.
degrees in Systematic Control Engineering from Kagoshima University, Japan,
which he received in 2000 and 2003, respectively. Between 2003 and 2009, he
worked as a researcher at the RISE Project Office of the National Astronomical
Observatory of Japan. Since 2009, he has been a professor at the Shanghai
Astronomical Observatory. His research interests include VLBI techniques and
lunar and planetary sciences. Currently, he is working on the Shanghai 65 m
radio wave telescope, the Chinese Space VLBI project, and the applications of
VLBI for Chinese lunar spacecraft.
Prof. Bin Li works at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory,
Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai, China). He received a Bachelor's Degree
in Engineering from Tongji University in 1999 and a Master's Degree in Science
from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004.
From 2003 to 2005, he conducted visiting research at the ASTRON Institute in
The Netherlands. He is mainly engaged in the research of high-sensitivity
receiving systems in the centimeter-band radio astronomy, especially in the research
of low-temperature and low-noise microwave device technology. He has participated
in major scientific research projects such as the lunar exploration project,
Shanghai 65-meter radio telescope, and space VLBI, and hosted one National
Natural Science Foundation Youth Fund and one key fund. His research interests
mainly focus on astronomical technology and methods.
Weiye Zhong earned his B.S. degree from Soochow University,
Suzhou, China in 2004. He went on to complete his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China in 2007 and
2020, respectively. Between 2008 and 2009, he worked as a Research Associate in
the Communication Research Laboratory at Nanyang Technological University in
Singapore. In 2009, he joined the Radio Astronomy Division at Shanghai Astronomical
Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Shanghai, China. From 2009 to
2012, he designed the Tianma L-band cryogenic receiver and integrated the
system. Between 2013 and 2016, he designed the Q-band two-beam cryogenic
receiver on the Tianma Telescope. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Visiting Scholar
at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, USA. Currently, he
is a professor-level Senior Engineer at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory,
CAS. His research interests include quasi-optics, microwave passive devices,
cryogenic low-noise amplifiers, and cryogenic receiving systems.
Dr. Wu Jiang works as an Associate Researcher at the Shanghai
Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai, China). His research
interests mainly focus on eht and vlbi. His scientific output includes 67 publications
in various journals with an h-index of 26 (Scopus, January 2024).
