Wei Zhang

Prof. Wei Zhang is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University with Wu Prize for research excellence. She was an Assistant Professor with the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2010 to 2013. She was a co-investigator of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, and a collaborator of ASTAR-UIUC Advanced Digital Sciences Center. She joined HKUST in 2013 and established Reconfigurable Computing Systems Lab. She has authored over 100 technical papers in referred international journals and conferences and authored three book chapters. Her team has won the best paper award in ISVLSI 2009 and ICCAD 2017.

Prof. Zhang currently serves in several editorial boards as Associate Editor including ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS), IEEE Transaction on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), and ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (JETC). She also serves on many organization committees and technical program committees, such as DAC, ICCAD, CASES, FPGA, FCCM, etc.

Research Interests:

• Reconfigurable system and FPGA-based design
• Hardware based accelerating for machine learning
• High-performance, low-power multicore systems
• Secure embedded systems
• Electronic design automation

Honors and Awards

She receives a best paper award from IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI.