Zheng Zhang (M'15) joined the faculty of University of California at Santa
Barbara (UCSB) in July 2017, and he is currently an Associate
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Ph.D in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, in 2015, M.Phil from the University
of Hong Kong in 2010, and B. Eng
from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2008. His
industrial experiences include Coventor Inc., Cambridge, MA, and
Maxim-IC, Colorado Springs, CO, USA; academic visiting experiences
include the University of California at San Diego, Brown University, and Politechnico di
Milano, Milan, Italy; government laboratory experiences include the
Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA. His research interests include uncertainty quantification
and tensor
computation with multi-domain
applications including CAD of nano-scale IC/MEMS/photonics,
sustainable and trustworthy AI systems.
Dr. Zhang received three Best Paper Awards from IEEE Transactions:
the Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design
of Integrated Circuits and Systems in 2014, two Best Paper Awards of
IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing
Technology in 2018 and 2020, respectively. He also received three Best
Paper Awards and three additional Best Paper Nominations at
international conferences. His PhD dissertation was recognized by
the ACM SIGDA Outstanding Ph.D Dissertation Award in Electronic
Design Automation in 2016, and by the Doctoral Dissertation Seminar
Award (i.e., Best Thesis Award) from the Microsystems Technology
Laboratory of MIT in 2015. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2019, Facebook Research Award in 2020
and Meta Research Award in 2022. He is a recipient of the ACM SIGDA
Outstanding New Faculty Award and IEEE CEDA Early Career Award in
2021.
