Dr. Qiaoping Zhang is currently an Associate Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), serving as the Programme Leader of the Master of Arts in Mathematics and Pedagogy [MA(MP)]. He serves as a member of the Curriculum Development Council Committee on Mathematics Education and a member of the Coordinating Committee on Basic Competency and Assessment Literacy in the Hong Kong Education Bureau. He is the representative for Hong Kong mathematics education to the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) since March 2025. He has been invited as the Plenary Panelist at the PME-42 (Umeå, Sweden), and as a TSG member in ICME-13 (Hamburg, Germany), ICME -14 (Shanghai, China), and ICME -15 (Sydney, Australia). He also acted as the Deputy Director of The Third Wave Lab at the University of Melbourne. Dr Zhang is the Chair of Organizing Committee of Innovative Teaching for the Future of Education: The 1^st Hangzhou-Hong Kong Primary Mathematics Education Symposium (2024.06.06), and the Chair of Organizing Committee of Cross-Strait Four Regions Conference on Mathematics Education (2019.06.27). Before joined in EdUHK, he has worked at Hubei University, East China Normal University(ECNU), and the Chinese University of Hong Kong(CUHK). He obtained his PhD from CUHK in 2010. His research interests are mainly on affect in mathematics education, teacher noticing and mathematics teacher education, and STEAM education.

• Affect in mathematics education
• Cross-cultural comparison in mathematics education
• Teacher noticing and mathematics teacher education
• Students’ problem solving
• STEAM education

• Research in Mathematics Education
• Mathematics Curriculum and Instructional Design
• Mathematics Problem-solving
• Methods of Teaching Elementary and Secondary Mathematics

Hong Kong Representative to the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) since March 2025 國際數學教育委員會香港代表 (https://www.mathunion.org/icmi)

Member of the Curriculum Development Council Committee on Mathematics Education, Hong Kong SAR (2019 - present) 香港教育局課程發展議會數學教育委員會委員(https://cd1.edb.hkedcity.net/cd/cdc/en/)

Member of the Coordinating Committee on Basic Competency and Assessment Literacy, Hong Kong SAR (2022.4.1 - 2025.3.31) 香港教育局基本能力評估及評估素養統籌委員會委員

Member of Chinese Society of Mathematics Education, the Chinese Mathematical Society (CMS) (2021.10- ) 中國數學會數學教育分會會員(https://cmsmes.ecnu.edu.cn/)

Member of the International Exchange Working Group of the Chinese Society of Mathematics Education, the Chinese Mathematical Society (CMS) (2022.7-2025.12) 中國數學會數學教育分會數學教育國際交流工作組組員

Member of Primary Mathematics Teaching Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Education (CSE) (2020-2024) 中國教育學會小學數學教學專業委員會理事

Member of the Assessment Panel on Mathematics Education KLA of Chief Executive’s Award for Teaching Excellence (CEATE), Hong Kong SAR (2020-2021) (2025-2026) 行政長官卓越教學獎數學教育學習領域評審團委員

Professional Consultant for Pok Leung Kuk Hong Kong Primary Mathematics Contest (2020-present)

Professional Consultant for St. Paul’s Primary Catholic School (2019-present)

Consultant, The Education University of Hong Kong Jockey Club Primary School (2018-2020)

Member of the Hong Kong Mathematics Olympiad Organizing Committee (2018-2020)

Co-Chair of TSG 4 (The Essence of Mathematics Teacher Education), the ICMI-East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education (EARCOME 9), 18-22 July 2025, Siheung, Korea;

Member of TSG 4.6 (Knowledge in/for teaching mathematics at secondary level), the 15th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-15), 7-14 July 2024, Sydney, Australia;

Co-Chair of TSG 1 (Mathematics Teacher Education and Professional Development), the 3rd ACME Symposium on Mathematics Education, 9-12 November 2023, Shanghai, China;

Member of TSG 33(Knowledge in/for teaching mathematics at secondary level), the 14th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-14), 12-19 July 2020, Shanghai, China;

Chairman, Cross-strait four regions conference on mathematics education: Competency-based mathematics education reforms, 27 June 2019, Hong Kong;

Member of Plenary Panel, the 42nd Annual Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME42), 3-8 July 2018, Umeå;

Member of TSG 28 (Affect, beliefs and identity in mathematics education), the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13), 24-31 July 2016, Hamburg, Germany;

Chairman of a workshop, the 7th ICMI-East Asia Regional Conference on Mathematics Education (EARCOME-7), 11-15 May 2015, Cebu, Philippines.

Reviewer for journals

• Asian Journal for Mathematics Education
• Asia Pacific Journal of Education
• Education Journal
• ECNU Review of Education
• International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education
• Global Education
• Learning and Individual Differences
• Journal of Mathematical Behavior
• Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education
• Journal for Research in Mathematics Education,
• School Science and Mathematics
• Teaching and Teacher Education
• The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
• ZDM - Mathematics Education

Service on the Editorial Board

Educational Research and Evaluation (Since March 2023)https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/nere20/about-this-journal#editorial-board

Discovery Education (Since August 2024) https://link.springer.com/journal/44217/editors

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Since March 2023) https://www.nature.com/palcomms/

Online Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (Since March 2021)

The Journal of Mathematical Behavior (since Jan 2025) https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-journal-of-mathematical-behavior

Pedagogical Research (Since 2016)