Zhang Qiang, male, born in December 1979, is a professor of Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Science at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, and executive dean of Jinan Institute of Quantum Technology. He received a doctorate in Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2006, and his doctoral dissertation was selected as one of the Top 100 Doctoral Dissertations Of China. From 2006 to 2011, he was a postdoctor and visiting scholar at Stanford University and Japan National Institute of Informatics. Since 2011, he has been a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China. In 2013, he was selected as the first batch of Young 973 Chief Scientists. In 2017, he won the Special Gold Medal of International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. In 2018, he served as the chief scientist of the National Key R&D Program of China. In January 2019, he served as the Secretary-General of the National Technical Committee 578 on Quantum Computing and Metrology of Standardization Administration of China He is currently Chairman of the International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, Chairman of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) "Focus Group on Quantum Information Technology for Networks", Secretary-General of the National Technical Committee 578 on Quantum Computing and Metrology of Standardization Administration of China, and member of the Senior Advisory Group of the New Journal of Physics of the Institute of Physics ( Senior Advisory Panel) and editorial board member of the journal Quantum Science & Technology. His research fields are quantum cryptography and quantum communication experimental research, core device development and time-frequency transmission. He has published more than 90 SCIE papers in international academic journals including Reviews of Modern Physics (1), Nature (5), Nature research journals (11), Physical Review Letters (28). The research results were successively selected as the important progress of the American Physical Society in 2013, and the Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progress in the country selected by the academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2006 and 2014.