Xu Zhang
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bio
Prof. Xu Zhang joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as a tenure-track assistant professor in September 2019. He received his PhD and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a bachelor’s degree in physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Xu Zhang is a recipient of the MIT Presidential Fellow (2010), MIT Global Fellow (2014) and the Enrico Fermi Fellow (2018).
Education
Ph.D., 2017
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S., 2012
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S., 2010
Physics
University of Science and Technology of China
Research
Dr. Zhang’s research interests are to enable new paradigms of electronic and optoelectronic devices and their system-level integration, by leveraging the unique properties of atomically thin 2D crystals and fabrication technology.
Keywords
o Atomically Thin 2D Crystals
o Flexible Electronics
o Energy Harvesting
o Metalens/Flatlens