(M'04) received the B.S. degree in applied mathematics from the Northwest Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China, the M.S. degree in applied mathematics from the Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 1992, 1995, and 2001 respectively.

From 2003 to 2004, he was a research associate in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. From 2007 to 2008, he was a visiting professor at University of Ulm, Germany. Since 2001, he has been in the School of Information Science and Technology,
Southwest Jiaotong University, where he is currently a professor. His research interests include coding theory, network security, distributed storage and information processing for big data.

Dr. Tang was the recipient of the National excellent Doctoral Dissertation award in 2003 (China), the Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2007 (Germany), and the  Outstanding Young Scientist Award by NSFC in 2013 (China).