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Xu Zhang

Xu Zhang

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Address 5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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 Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 (2022), Enrico Fermi Fellow (2018), MIT Global Fellow (2014) and MIT Presidential Fellow (2010).

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 lab focuses on building advanced nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices, by leveraging the unique properties of emerging materials, such as the atomically precise 2D materials. These new device and material platforms have broad applications in computing, energy, sensing, communication and healthcare, etc.

 

Keywords

  • Atomically Precise 2D Materials
  • Extreme Scaling of Electronic and Photonic Devices
  • Metasurfaces and Tunable Photonic Devices
  • Neuromorphic Computing
  • Ubiquitous Energy Harvesting and Sensing

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Joshi, Zhang named to MIT Technology Review's "Innovators Under 35" list

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