教育部长江学者特聘教授、国家杰出青年科学基金获得者，国家重大科学研究计划（973计划）项目首席科学家，国务院学位委员会学科评议组成员。 获国家 “十一五”科技计划执行突出贡献奖，美国物理学会 Outstanding Referee Award, 美国物理学会 Physical Review Letters 杂志学部副主编（Divisional Associate Editor)

2016.04 -, 上海交通大学 致远讲席教授

2004.10-2016.04,华东师范大学 终身教授

2003.09-2004.09 清华大学 百人计划教授

2001.1-2003.9 美国 Arizona 大学Assistant、Associate Research Professor

1992.4-2000.12 澳大利亚 Macquarie 大学 ARC Fellow / Lecturer

1989.6-1992.4 新西兰 Auckland 大学 UGC博士后

1989.1 中科院上海光机所 博士

1. 国家重大科学研究计划-“量子调控”计划项目，首席科学家

2. 国家基金委自然科学基金重点项目，项目负责人

1. P. Qian, Z. Gu, R. Cao, R. Wen, Z. Y. Ou, J. F. Chen, Weiping Zhang, "Temporal Purity and Quantum Interference of Single Photons from Two Independent Cold Atomic Ensembles", Physical Review Letters (in press)

2. B. Chen, C. Qiu, S. Chen, J. Guo, L. Q. Chen, Z. Y. Ou, and Weiping Zhang, “Atom-Light Hybrid Interferometer”, Physical Review Letters 115, 043602 (2015).

3. K. Zhang, F. Bariani, Y. Dong, Weiping Zhang, and P. Meystre, “Proposal for an Optomechanical Microwave Sensor at the Subphoton Level”, Physical Review Letters 114, 113601 (2015).

4. F. Hudelist, J. Kong, C. Liu, J. Jing, Z. Y. Ou and Weiping Zhang, “Quantum metrology with parametric amplifier based photon correlation interferometers”, Nature Commun. 5, 3049 (2014).

5. Z. Z. Qin, L. Cao, H. Wang, A. M. Marino, Weiping Zhang, and J. Jing, “Experimental generation of multiple quantum correlated beams from hot rubidium vapor”, Physical Review Letters 113, 023602 (2014).

6. J. Kong, F. Hudelist, Z. Y. Ou, and Weiping Zhang, “Cancellation of internal quantum noise of an amplifier by quantum correlation”, Physical Review Letters 111, 033608 (2013).

7. G. Dong, J. Zhu, Weiping Zhang, and B. A. Malomed, “Polaritonic solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a soft optical lattice”, Physical Review Letters 110, 250401 (2013).

8. J. Du, Z. Lin, S. T. Chui, G. Dong, and Weiping Zhang, “Nearly total omnidirectional reflection by a single layer of nanorods”, Physical Review Letters 110, 163902 (2013).

9. K. Zhang, P. Meystre, and Weiping Zhang, “Role reversal in a Bose-condensed optomechanical system”, Physical Review Letters 108, 240405 (2012).

10. J. Zhu, G. Dong, M. N. Shneider, and Weiping Zhang, “Strong local-field effect on the dynamics of a dilute atomic gas irradiated by two counter-propagating optical fields: Beyond Standard Optical Lattices”, Physical Review Letters 106, 210403 (2011).