Zhihan Zhang


Electronics • Sensing • Interactions • Sustainability

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About

I am a 1st year PhD student at University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, advised by Prof. Vikram Iyer and Prof. Shwetak Patel. My research focuses on deploying ubiquitous sustainable computational things to environments. My research interests are highly interdisciplinary, combining sustainable material, electronic devices, energy harvesting-enabled embedded systems, ubiquitous computing, and human-computer interaction.

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 Prof. Thad Starner and Prof. 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, and was elected to the 2017 all-province middle school soccer team when I was in middle school in China.

News

Awarded the University of Washington CEI Graduate Fellowship, will receive funding for one academic year!

UW

06/07/2023

Passed my Ph.D. Qualifying Evaluation, thanks all!

UW CSE

05/10/2023

Our paper SwellSense is accepted to CHI 2023, I will present it in-person in Hamburg!

CHI '23

01/13/2023

I have accepted an offer to pursue my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Washington.

UW CSE

03/30/2022

Gave a talk at MIT HCIE group, thanks for the opportunity from Prof. Stefanie Mueller.

MIT CSAIL

10/28/2021

Our paper on reconfigurable stochastic neurons for simulated annealing and Boltzmann machine is published on Nature Communications!

Nature Communications

09/29/2021

Publications

2023:

P4. Youngwook Do, Nivedita Arora, Ali Mirzazadeh, Injoo Moon, Eryue Xu, Zhihan Zhang, Gregory D. Abowd, Sauvik Das. "Powering for Privacy: Improving User Trust in Smart Speaker Microphones with Intentional Powering and Perceptible Assurance." USENIX Security '23

P3. Tingyu Cheng, Zhihan Zhang, Bingrui Zong, Yuhui Zhao, Zekun Chang, Ye Jun Kim, Clement Zheng, Gregory D. Abowd, HyunJoo Oh. "SwellSense: Creating 2.5D interactions with micro-capsule paper." ACM CHI '23

2021:

P2. 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. "Reconfigurable Stochastic neurons based on tin oxide/MoS2 hetero-memristors for simulated annealing and the Boltzmann machine." Nature Communications, 12, 5710 (2021)

P1. 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. "A tantalum disulfide charge-density-wave stochastic artificial neuron for emulating neural statistical properties." Nano Letters, 21 (8), 3465-3472

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Mens et Manus

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

Professional Experience

Research Intern

Mar 2021 - Jul 2021

Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Computer Vision Algorithm Intern @ Artificial Intelligence Research Institute

Global Dreamer Program

Jul 2019 - Aug 2019

Alibaba, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Skills

C 100%
Python 90%
VHDL/Verilog 80%
Java 70%
High Level-Shader Language 70%
MATLAB 90%
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 90%
PCB Design90%
Electronic Design Simulation 80%
CAD 70%

Contact

Lux sit

Location:

CSE1 605, 185 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105

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