Background
Professor Zhang received his BS in Physics from Nanjing Normal University in 1982 and MS from the Institute of Semiconductor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1987, and did his research at the Max Planck Institute for the Solid States and received this doctoral degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart in 1991. He then worked as an Assistant Research Engineer at UCSB before he joined Hughes Research Labs in 1993. In 1996, he was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at ASU and was promoted to full professor in 2000.