Faculty Profile - Fumin Zhang
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Assistant Professor Systems and Controls Phone: Fax: 912.966.7910 Office: GT-Savannah http://www.gtsav.gatech.edu/people/fzhang |
Biography
Dr. Fumin Zhang joined Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2007 as an assistant professor. Previously, he worked as a lecturer and postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, where he also worked for the Institute for Systems Research. His B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in electrical engineering, are from Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Human activities have been one of the driving factors behind environmental changes. Human-generated chemicals and wastes are causing profound problems such as global warming, red tides, and acid rains. Dr. Fumin Zhang’s research work on mobile sensor networks aims to meet the challenge of monitoring large areas in the ocean and atmosphere with limited sensing resources and limited power. He has developed motion planning algorithms and motion control laws for underwater robots to explore and sample ocean fields. These methods have been implemented and tested on underwater gliders. He is interested in integrating cooperative control theory and distributed sensing algorithms with real world applications that are constrained by environmental disturbances and limited power. His current goal is to establish a lab and a research program for designing underwater robots and sensor networks at the Savannah campus.
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Last revised on July 25, 2006.