I am currently a second year Ph.D. candidate at University of Amsterdam, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Paola Grosso and Dr. Florian Speelman. Prior to my doctoral studies, I obtained my Master of Science from the Superconducting Quantum Computing Lab, Southern University of Science and Technology. During my master’s studies, I was fortunate to work under the guidance of Dr. Fei Yan and Prof. Yuan Xu.

Research Interests

Affiliated with the Quantum Delta Netherlands Programme, I am currently conducting research on the integration of quantum and classical computing science, encompassing areas such as quantum communication, quantum information and network virtualization.

Preprints and Publications

• Z. Zhang, F. Speelman, and P. Grosso, “Enhancing Position Verification in Multi-Node Quantum Networks,” in IEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, London, United Kingdom, May 2025, pp. 9.52 pdf.

• Z. Zhang, F. Speelman, and P.Grosso, “Leveraging SDN Control for Time-Precise Quantum Position Verification”, in IEEE QCNC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing, Nara, Japan, March 2025 pdf

• Z. Zhang, F. Speelman, and P. Grosso, “Toward Complete Quantum Network Stacks: A Survey,” in IEEE Network, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 153-159, Sept. 2024, doi: 10.1109/MNET.2024.3402951.

• C. Lyu, Z. Zhang, et al., “Multilevel Variational Spectroscopy Using a Programmable Quantum Simulator,” Physical Review Research, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 013015, Jan. 2024, doi: 6.1 (2024): 013015.

Education

• 2023.9 - Present, University of Amsterdam
  Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

Invited Talks

• 2024.5, ‘Towards complete and feasible quantum networks’, CompSys 24, Den Bosch, the Netherlands

Experiences

• 2023.2 - 2023.8, Research Engineer, BAIDU Research, Shenzhen, China

Teaching

• TA, Network and Network Security, Fall 2024