Her research interests include: power management for sustainable operation of energy harvesting systems; wireless sensor networks; intelligent monitoring and diagnostic systems; information retrieval and data mining; artificial intelligence; and MEMS design automation and synthesis. Dr. Zhang received a B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Tongji University (1995), a M.S. degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago (2001), a M.S. in EE from the University of Massachusetts Lowell (2002), and a Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from the UC Berkeley (2006). She is a Licensed Professional Electrical Engineer, and an IEEE senior member. She received National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2013, and Lockheed Martin Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award at Georgia Tech in 2012.