Bio
Short bio
Dr. Zhibo Pang (M’13, SM’15) received MBA in Innovation and Growth from University of Turku in 2012 and PhD in Electronic and Computer Systems from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 2013. He is currently a Senior Principal Scientist at ABB Corporate Research Sweden, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of IEEE IES Industry Activities Committee, and Co-Chair of the Technical Committee on Industrial Informatics. He is Associate Editor of IEEE TII, IEEE JBHI, and IEEE JESTIE. He was General Chair of IEEE ES2017, General Co-Chair of IEEE WFCS2021, and Invited Speaker at the Gordon Research Conference AHI2018. He was awarded the “Inventor of the Year Award” by ABB Corporate Research Sweden, three times in 2016, 2018, and 2021 respectively. He works on enabling technologies in electronics, communication, computing, control, artificial intelligence, and robotics for Industry4.0 and Healthcare4.0.
Long bio
Dr. Zhibo Pang, PhD&MBA, received B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 2002, MBA in Innovation and Growth from University of Turku, Turku, Finland in 2012, and PhD in Electronic and Computer Systems from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden in 2013. He is currently a Senior Principal Scientist on Industrial Communication at ABB Corporate Research, Västerås, Sweden. He is Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Before joined ABB, he was co-founder and CTO of startups such as Ambigua Medito AB.
He has 70+ patents (24 granted), 90+ refereed journal papers and 50+ refereed conference papers. He has delivered 30+ keynotes or invited talks at international conferences such as ICC2020, GLOBECOM 2020, IEEE 5G World Forum 2020, INDIN2019, ISIE2019, WCNC2018, GLOBECOM 2017, VTC Spring 2017, IECON2016, INDIN2016, IEEE Industry Tech Summit 2016, etc.
Zhibo Pang works on enabling technologies in electronics, communication, computing, control, artificial intelligence, and robotics for Industry4.0 and Healthcare4.0. His research is cross-disciplinary and driven by essential challenges of industrial digitalization for process automation, building/home automation, factory/discrete automation, power grids, industrial powertrain, robotics, food and beverage, healthcare, etc. His experience covers many of the enabling technologies for Industry4.0 and Healthcare4.0, e.g., cyber physical systems, Internet-of-Things, industrial wired and wireless communications, 5G/6G, industrial cloud/fog computing, industrial artificial intelligence, real time embedded systems, high accuracy localization and navigation, healthcare robotics, multicore system-on-chip and network-on-chip, flexible electronics, wearable biomedical devices, etc. Many of his research results have been commercialized in industrial digitalization solutions. He also works on the business-technology joint research such as business strategy, business model, value chain, and entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship.
Zhibo Pang is recognized for his major contributions to industrial wireless communications. For instance, his work which is known as the WirelessHP has largely pushed forward the research frontier in terms of low latency and high reliability communication. The WirelessHP achieved microsecond level packet transmission time and 10e-6 level packet error rate which was 20+ times beyond the start-of-the-art industrial wireless solutions. This work has inspired the development of new fundamental theories such as the novel interleaver-free coding scheme of “RLCs with GRAND-MO” from Prof. Muriel Médard and her team at MIT, the novel waveform of MOCZ from Dr. Philipp Walk and Prof. Hamid Jafarkhani of UC Irvine, Dr. Peter Jung of TU Berlin, and Prof. Babak Hassibi of Caltech, the novel methodology on latency and reliability joint design from control theory perspectives by Dr. Konstantinos Gatsis of Oxford, Dr. Hamed Hassan and Prof. George J. Pappas of UPenn. His work on the WirelessHP has also positively impacted the roadmap of 6G at Nokia and the development of the Wireless Time Sensitive Networking at Intel.
During his PhD study, Zhibo Pang conceptualized and demonstrated one of the earliest prototypes of Intelligent Medicine Box (iMedBox) for IoT-based in-home healthcare in 2009, developed pioneering IoT-based fresh food tracking solution in 2010 which was followed up by 100M CNY public funding and commercialized in China.
In his early career in semiconductor industry, Zhibo Pang led the development of one of the earliest single-chip DVB-S (digital video broadcast - satellite) receiver SoC (system on chip) in 2005 which had occupied a major share of global market,
Zhibo Pang has rich experiences in supervising master, PhD, and postdoc students. He trains the students with comprehensive capabilities for high quality innovation, including not only theoretical skill but also practical skill. The students typically deliver their results through not only publications but also workable prototypes and even patents. He also guides the student to establish their own research visions by sharing with them the mega trends in industries, the cutting-edge industrial challenges, and the gaps of the state-of-the-art from academia and industry. He has supervised 4 Postdocs at universities, 4 PhDs at universities, 1 Postdocs at ABB, 4 PhDs at ABB, 24 masters at ABB, and 11 masters at universities. These students were born in more than 10 countries and 10+ of them are female.
