江苏苏州市人，1988年3月出生，2010年7于英国利物浦大学（University of Liverpool）获得一等通信工程学士学位，2014年12月毕业于英国布鲁内尔大学(Brunel University)电子与计算机工程系，并获得博士学位及校长博士科研奖，主要研究通信系统中的信道估计与调制分类。2015年9月加入苏州大学电子信息学院。发表SCI论文7篇，EI论文十余篇，并担任多个国际权威刊物审稿人。

以机器学习/深度学习/卷积神经网络为主的通信信号处理与数据挖掘应用研究，具体包括：

1）无线通信中的信道估计与调制分类

2）光通信中的调制分类及信息安全

3）光网络中的数据挖掘及动态优化

4）基于机器学习的光网络优化

5）基于机器学习的模式识别及数据挖掘

专著

Z. Zhu and A. K. Nandi, (2014) Automatic Modulation Classification - Principles, Algorithms, and Applications. Wiley (to be published in January 2015)

期刊论文

Z. Zhu, A. K.  Nandi, (2014) Blind Digital Modulation Classification using Minimum Distance Centroid Estimator and Non-parametric Likelihood Function, Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 4483-4494, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2014.2320724

Z. Zhu, M. W. Aslam, A. K.  Nandi, (2013) Genetic Algorithm Optimized Distribution Sampling Test for M-QAM Modulation Classification, Signal Processing, vol. 94, pp. 264-277, ISSN 0165-1684, doi: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2013.05.024

M. W. Aslam, Z. Zhu, A. K.  Nandi, (2013) Feature generation using genetic programming with comparative partner selection for diabetes classification, Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 40, no. 13, pp. 5402-5412, ISSN 0957-4174, doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.04.003

M. W. Aslam, Z. Zhu and A. K. Nandi, (2012) Automatic Modulation Classification Using Combination of Genetic Programming and KNN. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 11, no. 8, pp.2742-2750, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2012.060412.110460

会议论文

Z. Zhu, A. K.  Nandi, (2014) Blind Modulation Classification for MIMO systems using Expectation Maximization, IEEE Military Communication Conference

Z. Zhu, M. W. Aslam, A. K.  Nandi, (2013) Approximate Centroid Estimation with Constellation Grid Segmentation for Blind M-QAM Classification, IEEE Military Communication Conference

Z. Zhu, M. W. Aslam, A. K.  Nandi, (2013) Adapted Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming for Diabetes and Breast Cancer Classification, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing

M. W. Aslam, Z. Zhu, A. K.  Nandi, (2013) Improved Comparative Partner Selection with Brood Recombination for Genetic Programming, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing

Z. Zhu, M. W. Aslam, A. K.  Nandi, (2013) Robustness Enhancement of Distribution Based Binary Discriminative Features for Modulation Classification, IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing

M. W. Aslam, Z. Zhu and A. K. Nandi, (2011) Robust QAM Classification Using Genetic Programming and Fisher Criterion. European Signal Processing Conference, pp. 995-999, ISSN 2076-1465

Z. Zhu, M. W. Aslam and A. K. Nandi, (2011) Support Vector Machine Assisted Genetic Programming for MQAM Classification. IEEE International Symposium on Signals, Circuits & Systems, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISSCS.2011.5978654 

M. W. Aslam, Z. Zhu and A. K. Nandi, (2010) Automatic Digital Modulation Classification Using Genetic Programming with K-Nearest Neighbor. IEEE Military Communications Conference, pp. 1371-1376, doi: 10.1109/MILCOM.2010.5680232

Z. Zhu, M. W. Aslam and A. K. Nandi, (2010) Augmented Genetic Programming for automatic digital modulation classification. IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, pp. 391-396, doi: 10.1109/MLSP.2010.5588920