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Xu Zhang is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined CMU in 2019 as a tenure-track assistant professor after serving as a postdoctoral associate at MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories and as an Argonne Scholar at Argonne National Laboratory. His academic background includes a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China. Zhang's research interests focus on advanced electronic and photonic devices based on emerging nanomaterials. His current research explores extreme transistor scaling in silicon, high-frequency electronics, neuromorphic computing, AI hardware, and tunable photonic devices with applications in computing, energy, communication, and sensing. His work has been acknowledged with numerous awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2023 and recognition on MIT Technology Review’s Innovators 35 list in both 2022 and 2019.
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