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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.