Xu Zhang
Adjunct Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bio
Dr. Xu Zhang will join 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). Dr. Zhang is currently an Enrico Fermi Fellow at the Argonne National Laboratory. He worked as a postdoctoral associate at Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at MIT from 2017 to 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 nano-devices and their system-level integration, by leveraging the emerging nanomaterials (e.g. atomically thin 2D crystals) and nanotechnology. The scope of research encompasses the building blocks of energy conversion, sensing, actuation, communication and signal conditioning. The target applications include (but not limit to): flexible and adaptive electronics, tunable metalens and energy harvester, etc.
Keywords
- Atomically Thin 2D Materials
- Flexible Electronics
- Energy Harvesting
- High Frequency Electronics
- Metalens/Flatlens
- MEMS