Zhen Zhang
Prof. Zhen Zhang is currently a professor in electronics at the Angstrom laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden and an adjunct researcher with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. Before joining Uppsala University as a tenure track assistant professor in Aug. 2013, he was a postdoctoral research fellow (2008-2010) then a Research Staff Member (2010-2013) at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D degree from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden in 2008. He got the M.Sc degree at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003 and the B.Sc. degree at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2000.
Prof. Zhang received 12 Invention Achievement Awards from IBM CEO Office. He was also a recipient of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Students Abroad in 2006, a recipient of the Ingvar Clarsson Award from the Swedish Strategic Research Foundation (SSF) in 2013, the Young Researcher Grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR) in 2014, and a recipient of the Göran Gustafssons Prize in 2014. He was appointed Wallenberg Academy Fellow in 2015, SSF Future Research Leader in 2016, and Wallenberg Senior Academy Fellow in 2020.