The current open questions in the field of gamma-ray bursts are reviewed, which include progenitor, central engine, jet composition,
jet dissipation mechanism, radiation mechanism,

and origin of afterglow. In particular, I will discuss how new observational data demand shift of paradigm of the standard theoretical framework.

 Prospects in the multi-messenger era will be discussed.

个人简历：

Professional Appointments:
• Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UNLV, 7/2010 -
• Cheung Kong Scholar and Visiting Professor, Kavli Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
and Department of Astronomy, Peking University, 9/2012 -
• Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UNLV, 7/2008 - 6/2010
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UNLV, 8/2004 - 6/2008
• Research associate, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University,
2000 - 8/2004
• Senior research associate, Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), 2003 - 2004
• National Research Council (NRC) research associate, Laboratory of High Energy Astrophysics,
Code 661, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 1998 - 2000
• Lecturer and postdoctoral fellow, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China, 1997-1998
• Visiting scientist, Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), CSIRO, and Swinburne
University of Technology, Australia, 1998
Education:
• Ph.D. in Astrophys,, Peking Univ. (Beijing Univ.), China, January, 1997.
• M.S. in Astrophys., Peking Univ., July, 1994.
• B.S. in Geophys., Peking Univ., July, 1991.
Synergistic Activities:
• Authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific papers published in professional journals,
including 9 in the Nature magazine and 2 in the Science magazine.
• According to NASA ADS archive, more than 10,000 citations in total, including more than 3000
citations to the first-author papers. The citation “h-index” is 62.
• 2009: Thomson Reuters Science Watch analysis: Total number of citations and total number of
papers ranked #11 and #6 in the past 10 years in the GRB field (out of more than 8000
authors); 6 papers identified in the top 20 most cited papers in the past two years; 3
first-author papers identified as the core papers of Research Front Map of Gamma-Ray Bursts.
• Leading an active research group at UNLV. As of Aug. 2012, 22 long-term members and 18
short-term members have worked in the group, resulting in more than 50 published papers with
the group members being the first author.
• Principal Investigator of about 20 NASA and NSF grants.
• Member of NASA Swift GRB mission Science Team. Serving in the theory group to provide
theoretical interpretations to the Swift data. Shared 2007 Bruno Rossi Prize of AAS HEAD as
a Swift team member (PI: N. Gehrels).
• 2012: Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award, UNLV
• 2007: First author of the New Hot Paper in the field of Space Science identified by Essential
Science Indicators in July 2007 (Zhang et al. 2006, ApJ, 642, 354).
• Delivered more than 100 conference talks / colloquia / lectures. Most are invited.
• Research widely reported in the media.