Yi Zhang received a B.Eng. degree in survey engineering from Wuhan University in 2003, and a Ph.D. degree in geodesy and survey engineering from Wuhan University in 2008. From 2008 to 2016, he was a lecturer at the School of Geodesy and Geomatics of Wuhan University. He was a visiting scholar in University of California, Davis, USA from 2014 to 2015. Since 2017, he has been an Associate Professor with the School of Geodesy and Geomatics of Wuhan University. His research interests include Visual SLAM and Laser SLAM.