His main interest is to develop remote sensing techniques for understanding and quantifying weather and earth environments. His research and education interests also include wave propagation and scattering in geophysical media subjected to turbulent mixing and filled with hydrometers and other objects. He is currently teaching and researching in the areas of cloud and precipitation microphysics, electromagnetics, radar polarimetry and phased array radar interferometry for weather applications. He has taught many courses and published over 40 journal papers. Prior to joining OU, Dr. Zhang was a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).