About Me
I am a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, advised by Prof. Vikram Iyer and Shwetak Patel. My research focuses on sustainable and ubiquitous computing. My research has been published in top scientific journals (Nature Sustainability, Nature Communications), and premier CS venues (CHI, IMWUT), and has been recognized by Clean Energy Institue Fellowship.
Prior to joining Allen School, I did my M.S. in Quantitative & Computational Finance and received my B.S. in Computer Engineering with highest honors from Georgia Institute of Technology, where I was fortunate to work with Thad Starner and Gregory Abowd at Georgia Tech Ubicomp Lab.
Some of my other interests include travelling, reading, and soccer. I was named the city's best midfielder of the 2018 high school soccer season when I was an exchange student at a high school in Texas. When I was in middle school in China, we won the Zhejiang all-province middle school soccer championship in 2016, and I was elected to the all-province team of the season.
News
Selected as a Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher, looking forward to meeting the Laureates and young researchers from all over the world!
11th HLF 2024
09/2024
Gave a talk on "Towards Sustainable Ubiquitous Computing" at the University of Tokyo, thanks to the invitation from Prof. Yoshihiro Kawahara, Koya Narumi and Ryo Takahashi.
University of Tokyo
05/2024
Our paper on recyclable printed circuit boards is published in Nature Sustainability!
Nature Sustainability
04/2024
Gave a talk on "Towards Sustainable Ubiquitous Computing" at Stanford HCI, thanks to Yujie Tao and Matthew Joerke for hosting.
Stanford HCI
04/2024
Two papers are accepted to CHI 2024, see you all in Hawaii!
CHI '24
01/2024
Our paper DeltaLCA is accepted to UbiComp 2024, see you all in Melbourne this Oct!
UbiComp '24
01/2024
Awarded the University of Washington CEI Graduate Fellowship, will receive funding for one academic year!
UW
06/2023
Passed my Ph.D. Qualifying Evaluation, thanks all!
UW CSE
05/2023
My Research
2024:
Zhihan Zhang, Agni K. Biswal, Ankush Nandi, Kali Frost, Jake A. Smith, Bichlien H. Nguyen, Shwetak Patel, Aniruddh Vashisth, Vikram Iyer
Nature Sustainability (2024)
paper
Nature News | UW News | IEEE Spectrum | Science Daily | New Atlas
Chu Li*, Zhihan Zhang*, Michael Saugstad, Esteban Safranchik, Minchu Kulkarni, Xiaoyu Huang, Shwetak Patel, Vikram Iyer, Tim Althoff, Jon E Froehlich (*equal contribution)
CHI '24 (Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
paper
Zachary Englhardt, Richard Li, Dilini Nissanka, Zhihan Zhang, Girish Narayanswamy, Joseph Breda, Xin Liu, Shwetak Patel, Vikram Iyer
CHI EA '24 (Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
paper
Zhihan Zhang, Felix Hähnlein, Yuxuan Mei, Zachary Englhardt, Shwetak Patel, Adriana Schulz, Vikram Iyer
IMWUT '24 (Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies)
paper
2023:
Minchu Kulkarni, Chu Li, Jaye Jungmin Ahn, Katrina Oi Yau Ma, Zhihan Zhang, Michael Saugstad, Kevin Wu, Yochai Eisenberg, Valerie Novack, Brent Chamberlain, Jon E Froehlich
ASSETS '23 (Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility)
paper
Youngwook Do, Nivedita Arora, Ali Mirzazadeh, Injoo Moon, Eryue Xu, Zhihan Zhang, Gregory D. Abowd, Sauvik Das
USENIX Security '23 (32nd USENIX Security Symposium)
paper
CMU News
Tingyu Cheng, Zhihan Zhang, Bingrui Zong, Yuhui Zhao, Zekun Chang, Ye Jun Kim, Clement Zheng, Gregory D. Abowd, HyunJoo Oh
CHI '23 (Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
paper
Core77 Design Awards 2023
2021:
Xiaodong Yan, Jiahui Ma, Tong Wu, Aoyang Zhang, Jiangbin Wu, Matthew Chin, Zhihan Zhang, Madan Dubey, Wei Wu, Mike Shuo-Wei Chen, Jing Guo, Han Wang
Nature Communications 12, 5710 (2021)
paper
USC News | EurekAlert! | Science Daily
Hefei Liu, Tong Wu, Xiaodong Yan, Jiangbin Wu, Nan Wang, Zhonghao Du, Hao Yang, Buyun Chen, Zhihan Zhang, Fanxin Liu, Wei Wu, Jing Guo, Han Wang
Nano Letters 21 (8), 3465-3472
paper
education
Progress and Service
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering
Sept 2022 - Present
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
M.S. in Quantitative & Computational Finance
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
B.S. in Computer Engineering
Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Threads: Distributed System and Software Design, Computing Hardware and Emerging Architectures
Industry Positions
Research Intern @ Accenture Labs
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
Seattle, WA
Technology R&D Associate Principal @ Future Technologies
Research Intern @ Zhejiang Lab
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Computer Vision Algorithm Intern @ Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Global Dreamer Program @ Alibaba
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Contact Me
Lux sit
Email Me
zzhihan@cs.washington.edu