Yunpeng Zhang was born in Yunnan, China, in 1990. He received the B.S. degree in electromagnetic field and wireless technology and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2013 and 2019, respectively. From 2020 to 2022, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at UESTC. He is currently an Associate Research Fellow with the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, UESTC. His current research interests include material electromagnetic parameters measurement and microwave non-destructive testing.

He has presided over more than 10 projects, including the National Key R&D Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the China Post-Doctoral Science Foundation. He has published over 20 papers as the first or corresponding author, and has obtained over 40 invention patents and 4 group standards. He is a laureate of the Bronze Award in China Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and the Young Scientist Award in the 4th Microwave Energy Chemical Application Conference.