Mailing Address:	Rm 4164A,  Harold Frank Hall, Wireless Communication and Sensornets Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
	Office Phone:	+1 805-893-5201
	E-mail:	hongzhang@umail.ucsb.edu

• Millimeter-wave outdoor channel modeling 
• Millimeter-wave network topology design
• Wireless Communications, Signal processing

      Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara 01/2009 –Current

• Major: Electrical Computer Engineering

• Temporary thesis title: Channel modeling and network topology design for outdoor millimeter wave mesh network

      Master of Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara, 09/2007-12/2008 

• Major: Electrical Computer Engineering  

      Master of Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 09/2003-03/2006

• Major: Signals & Information Processing    

• Thesis: ‘Design and Realize the Software of a certain Signal Processing System’

      Bachelor of Engineering, Wuhan University, 09/1999-06/2003

• Major: Electronic Information Engineering

• Thesis: ‘Design and realize the Σ-Δ Decimal Frequency Divider

      Research Assistant: Channel modeling for outdoor millimeter wave mesh network (04/2009-current)

• Using the ray-tracing technique to model the 60 GHz outdoor channel model for the lamppost deployment

• Analyze the multipath effect and propose the corresponding antenna diversity technique

      Research Assistant: Design and Realize the CW/LFMCW Radar Signal Processing System (10/2003-03/2006)

• Designed and realized the printed circuit board for this signal processing system.

• Designed and accomplished the DSP program to detect and process radar echo signals using the linear assembly and C languages in the CCS environment

• Programmed the CPLD control system using VHDL language in the MAXPLUS II environment

• Obtained the high resolution information of angle, velocity and range.

       Research Assistant: Project of the trajectory generating module of the Phased Array Radar simulation system (12/2003-07/2004)

• Designed and examined the signal processing method of the digital signal simulation system

• Accomplished the programming of the simulation system using C++ language in VC environment

      Internship at Denali (07/2009-09/2009)

• Develop low density parity check (LDPC) code to achieve lower complexity and have a relative low error floor

• Combine LDPC code with BCH code together to overcome the absorbing set problems of LDPC

      Internship at Mentor Graphics (06/2008-09/2008)

• Software develop using C++

• Corner extraction for large-scale analog and mixed-signal performance variation

• Optimization algorithm research for large-scale circuit

• Publish a paper of “Efficient worst-case corner extraction for large scale ICs” at DAC 2009

      Conference Papers

• H. Zhang, Chen T., Ting M., X. Li, Efficient design-specific worst case corner extraction for Integrated circuits. IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC),  pp.388-391

• H. Zhang, U. Madhow, Statistical Modeling of Fading and Diversity for Outdoor 60 GHz Channels , International Workshop on mmWave Communications: from Circuits to Networks(mmCom10), Chicago, IL, Sept. 2010. 

• H. Zhang, S. Venkateswaran, U. Madhow, Channel Modeling and MIMO Capacity for Outdoor Millimeter wave Links , Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Sydney, Australia, Apr. 2010. 

• E. Torkildson, H. Zhang, U. Madhow, Channel Modeling for Millimeter Wave MIMO , Information Theory and Applications Workshop(ITA), San Diego, CA, Feb. 2010.