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Yuhao Zhang
Position: Assistant Professor (ECE)
Office: 664 Whittemore Hall, Virginia Tech
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (540) 231-9845
Dr. Yuhao Zhang is an assistant professor at the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Virginia Tech. Before joining Virginia Tech, he worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Microsystems Technologies Laboratories at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2017 to 2018. He received his Ph. D. and S. M., both in electrical engineering from MIT in 2017 and 2013, respectively. Prior to joining MIT, he received his B. S. in physics from Peking University in 2011 with the highest honor. His research interest is at the intersection of power electronics, micro/nano-electronic devices, and advanced semiconductor materials. His multiple research work on power devices has been covered by the media globally over 50 times.
To learn more, please visit his lab homepage:
https://www.widebandgap.ece.vt.edu/
To learn more, please visit his lab homepage:
https://www.widebandgap.ece.vt.edu/
Research Interests:
The intersection of power electronics, micro/nano-electronic devices, and advanced semiconductor materials, as well as machine learning assisted material-device-circuit co-design and co-optimization
The intersection of power electronics, micro/nano-electronic devices, and advanced semiconductor materials, as well as machine learning assisted material-device-circuit co-design and co-optimization
Honors & Awards:
2021 - National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2021 - Dean's Award on Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award of Virginia Tech Engineering
2019 - IEEE Georgia E. Smith Award (Best paper award of the year in the IEEE electron device letters)
2017 - MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories Doctoral Dissertation Seminar Award (i.e. MTL Best Doctoral Dissertation Award)
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