Xu Zhang

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Associate Professor
    Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • 412-268-3944 (Work)
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States

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).

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jun 2018 - present

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Enrico Fermi Fellow
    Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, United States1 Jun 2018 - present
  • Summer Intern
    IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, United States1 Jun 2016 - 1 Sep 2016
  • Summer Intern
    SanDisk, United States1 Jun 2014 - 1 Aug 2014

DEGREES

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States2017
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States2012
  • B.S., Physics
    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China2010

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral Associate
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States1 Jun 2017 - 1 Jun 2018
  • Argonne Scholar
    Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, United States1 Jun 2018 - 31 Aug 2019

CAMPUS

  • Pittsburgh

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 7 Affordable and Clean Energy