Zheng Zhang
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
2021 Outstanding New Faculty Award, Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM SIGDA); Ernest K. Suh Early Career Award, IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (IEEE CEDA)
2019 Early CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF)
2018 Best Paper Award, IEEE EPEPS
2016 ACM Outstanding Ph.D Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation;
2015 MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) Doctoral Dissertation Award;
2014 Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Research
Zhang's group investigates uncertainty-aware and data-driven modeling, verification and optimization techniques for multi-domain applications. Currently we focus on the following two correlated areas: uncertainty quantification, with applications to design automation of nano-scale IC/photonics, robotics and autonomous systems; and tensor computation, with applications to data analytics, machine learning algorithm and hardware design, medical image analysis.
PhD EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.Phil EEE, University of Hong Kong
BS Electronics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology