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Faculty Profile - Ying Zhang

Assistant Professor
Digital Signal Processing, and Systems and Controls

Phone: 404.385.3018
Fax: 404.894.4641
Office: VL E478

Biography

Dr. Zhang received her B.S. degree from Tongji University in Materials Science and Engineering. She received a M.S. degree from University of Illinois at Chicago in Materials Engineering and a M.S. degree from University of Massachusetts Lowell in Electrical Engineering in 2001 and 2002, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree from University of California at Berkeley in Systems Engineering in 2006. Dr. Zhang is a Licensed Professional Engineer.

Dr. Zhang’s research interests focus on systems level of interdisciplinary problems, and she has extensive research experience and publications in multiple engineering disciplines. Her recent research aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice in intelligent monitoring and information extraction systems. One specific focus is adaptive power management for sustainable wireless sensor networks that do ambient energy harvesting. The other specific focus is multisensor data fusion and visualization for information extraction from heterogeneous/homogeneous sensors in monitoring and/or diagnostic systems. Additionally, she has been actively involved in several research projects related to sensors, smart sensing systems, and MEMS design automation and synthesis.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests
  • Sensors and Smart Wireless Sensing Systems
  • Intelligent Monitoring and Diagnostic Systems
  • Data Fusion and Information Extraction
  • Complex Systems Analysis and Optimization
  • Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
  • Smart Materials and Structures
Distinctions
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2013
  • Lockheed Martin Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award, Georgia Tech, 2012
  • Georgia Tech “Thank a Teacher” Certificate, Spring 2008
  • NSF Fellowship for Attending the NSF Summer Institute Short Course on Energy Challenge and Nanotechnology
  • IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Best Paper Award (with Raffi Kamalian and Alice Agogino), Symposium of Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science, 2005
  • Honor Graduate, Tongji University, 1995

Last revised on May 22, 2013.