2000-2004   Candidate of Engineering in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2004-2006   Master of Engineering in Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2006-2010   Doctor in Electronic and Computer Engineering,

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong

03/2016-Now    Associate Professor of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University

02/11-01/16      Post-Doc Researcher of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania.

Supervisors: Prof. Jan Van der Spiegel and Prof. Nader Engheta

PRINCIPLE RESEARCH INTERESTS:

(1)  Bio-inspired neuromorphic vision sensor design

(2)  Brain-Machine-Brain-Interface implementation and biomedical application development

(3)  Wearable and/or implantable sensory system development and circuit implementation

06/2017  2017 IEEE ISCAS Best Student Paper Award

10/2015  2015 IEEE BioCAS Best Paper Award

06/2014  2014 IEEE ISCAS Best Paper Award of the BIOCAS Track

04/2010  HKUST Postgraduate Overseas Research Award

10/2008  HKUST Research Travel Grant

2006-2010  HKUST Postgraduate Scholarship Award

Publications：

1. M. Zhang*, T. Zijian, X. Liu, J. Van der Spiegel, “Electronic Neural Interface”, Nature Electronics, 2020 [pdf]

2. W. Song, Q. Han, Z. Lin, N. Yan, D. Luo, Y. Liao, M. Zhang*, Z. Wang, X. Xie, A. Wang, Y. Chen, and S. Bai, “Design of a Flexible Wearable Smart sEMG Recorder Integrated Gradient Boosting Decision Tree based Hand Gesture Recognition”, IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1563-1574, 2019 [pdf]

3. D. Luo, M. Zhang*, Z. Wang, “A Low Noise Chopper Amplifier Designed for Multi-Channel Neural Signal Acquisition”, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuit (JSSC), vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 2255-2265, 2019 [pdf]

4. Y. Zhang, M. Zhang*, D. Li*, et al, "Design of a Compact Wireless Multi-channel High Area-efficient Stimulator with Arbitrary Channel Configuration", Micromachines, 2018, 9(1), 6 [pdf]

5. X. Liu, M. Zhang*, J. Sacks, A. G. Richardson, T. H. Lucas, J. Van der Spiegel, “The Virtual Trackpad: an Electromyography-based, Wireless, Real-time, Low-Power, Embedded Hand Gesture Recognition System using an Event-driven Artificial Neural Network”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II). Vol. 64, pp. 1257-1261, Nov. 2017 [pdf]

6. X. Liu, M. Zhang*, A. G. Richardson, T. H. Lucas, J. Van der Spiegel, “Design of a Closed-Loop, Bidirectional Brain Machine Interface System With Energy Efficient Neural Feature Extraction and PID Control”, IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 729-742, 2017 [pdf]

7. X. Liu, M. Zhang*, A. G. Richardson, T. H. Lucas, J. Van der Spiegel, “A Fully Integrated Wireless Compressed Sensing Neural Signal Acquisition System for Chronic Recording and Brain Machine Interface”, IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol.10, no.4, pp. 874-883, 2016 [pdf]

8. H. Zhu, M. Zhang*, A. G. Richardson, T. H. Lucas, J. Van der Spiegel, “Design of a Digital Address-Event Triggered Compressive Acquisition Image Sensor”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 191-199, 2016 [pdf]

9. M. Zhang, X. Wu, N. Cui, N. Engheta, J. Van der Spiegel, “Bioinspired Focal-Plane Polarization Image Sensor Design: From Application to Implementation”, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 102, no. 10, pp. 1435-1449, 2014 [pdf]

10. X. Liu, M. Zhang*, A. Richardson, T. Lucas, J. Van der Spiegel, "Design of a General Purpose Wireless Brain-Machine-Brain Interface System", IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 248-258, 2015.

11. E. Lee, M. Zhang, S. Yang, N. Engheta, J. Van der Spiegel, "Tilted Pillars on Wrinkled Elastomers as a Reversibly Tunable Optical Window", Journal of Advanced Materials, vol. 26, no. 24, pp. 4127-4133, 2014.

12. M. Zhang, X. Wu, N. Engheta, J. Van der Spiegel, "A Monolithic CMOS Image Sensor with Wire-Grid Polarizer Filter Mosaic in the Focal Plane", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (TED), vol. 61. no. 3, pp. 855-862, 2014.

13. X. Wu, X. Liu, M. Zhang*, J. Van der Spiegel, "Current Mode Image Sensor with Improved Linearity and Fixed-Pattern Noise", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 1666-1674, 2014.

14. X. Liu, M. Zhang*, J. Van der Spiegel, "A Low Power Multi-functional CMOS Sensor Node for an Electronic Facade", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I), vol. 61, no. 9, pp. 2550-2559, 2014.

15. M. Zhang, K. Ihida-Stansbury, J. Van der Spiegel, and N. Engheta “Polarization-based non-staining cell detection”, Optics Express, vol. 20, no. 23, pp. 25378-25390, 2012.

16. M. Zhang, A. Bermak, “Quadrant Based On-line Spatial and Temporal Compressive Acquisition for CMOS Image Sensor”, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), vol.19, no. 9, pp. 1525-1534, 2011.