Weiping Zhang was born in March 1964 in Shanghai.  He graduated from Fudan University in 1985. He received his master's degree from the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1988.  He received a Ph.D. from the Université Paris-Sud, France in 1993. In 2001, he was elected as a Fellow of  The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and in 2007 he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He used to be the director of Chern Institute of Mathematics.

Weiping Zhang is mainly engaged in the study of Atiyah-Singer index theory and its application in differential geometry, geometry and analysis on manifolds. He has achieved a series of outstanding success in international filed.

What is more, in 2002, he was invited to give a 45-minute invitation report to the International Congress of Mathematicians; He received many awards and honors such as the Outstanding Young Scholar Award of Hong Kong Qiu Shi Science and Technologies Foundation (1995), the Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Natural Science Foundation (1995), TWAS Award in Mathematics by TWAS  (2000), the First Prize of the National Award for Science and Technology Progress by Ministry of Education (2000), China's Top Ten Outstanding Youths (2001), Shiing-Shen Chern Mathematics Award (2003), National advanced workers (2005), the Second Prize of National Award for Natural Sciences by the State Council of China (2005) and many other honors and awards.