Xin Zhang  is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University (BU).

Education 
Zhang received her Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). She was a postdoctoral researcher and then a research scientist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Career 
Zhang joined the faculty of Boston University in 2002, and became Inaugural Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Engineering in 2009, and Distinguished Professor of Engineering in 2022.

Research 
Zhang leads the Laboratory for Microsystems Technology (LMST)  at Boston University that focuses on the broad areas of metamaterials and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS or microsystems).

Professional memberships 
 Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2015) 
 Fellow of the Optica (2016) 
 Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2016) 
 Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2017)
 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2016) 
 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2017) 
 Fellow of the American Physical Society (2019) 
 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2019)

Honors, awards and special recognitions 
 2023: IEEE EMBS Technical Achievement Award 
 2023: STAT Madness All-Star Award 
 2023: ASME Per Bruel Gold Medal 
 2022: IET Innovation Award on Chief Engineer of the Year (Finalist) 
 2022: Guggenheim Fellowship
 2022: Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Boston University
 2021: Rajen Kilachand Fund for Integrated Life Science and Engineering 
 2021: IET Innovation Award on Digital Health and Social Care (Finalist) 
 2021: IET Innovation Award on Tech for Good (Finalist) 
 2021: Invented Here! Honoree, Boston Patent Law Association 
 2020: IET Achievement Medal (Finalist) 
 2020: Invented Here! Honoree, Boston Patent Law Association 
 2020: IET Innovation Award on Excellence in R&D (Finalist) 
 2019: Fellow of National Academy of Inventors
 2019: IET Innovation Award on Emerging Technology Design 
 2018: Boston University Innovator of the Year Award 
 2018: Charles DeLisi Award and Distinguished Lecture 
 2016: IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award 

Recently, Zhang's research on metamaterials, both those  that enable highly efficient, air-permeable sound silencing and noise reduction and those  that markedly boosts MRI signal-to-noise ratio and thus significantly improves the performance of MRI, have drawn significant worldwide interest from the scientific community and industry, with the stories having been picked up by 300+ media outlets.

Education and outreach 
Zhang is Director of both the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site  and Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site  in Integrated Nanomanufacturing at Boston University. She also serves as Associate Director of the Boston University Nanotechnology Innovation Center.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American engineers
Boston University faculty
Alumni of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology people
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of Optica (society)