Professor
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Yu Zhang, PhD
IEEE Senior Member Email: yuzi20@lehigh.edu |
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oDrTEi0AAAAJ&hl=en |
Professional Experience:
Research Fellow, Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, 2017-2020
Research Fellow, Biomedical Research and Imaging Center, UNC Chapel Hill, 2016-2017
Assistant Professor, East China University of Science and Technology, 2013-2016
Research Associate, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Japan), 2010-2012
Short Biography:
Dr. Yu Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Lehigh University. Before joining Lehigh, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, and also at Biomedical Research Imaging Center, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a Visiting Scientist at RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Automation at East China University of Science and Technology where he got a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Science and Engineering in 2013. He was also a Research Associate with the RIKEN BSI, Japan. He is the author of over 130 technical papers that have been published in the prestigious Journals and Conferences, such as Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Human Behaviour, Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TNSRE, IEEE TBME, AAAI, and MICCAI. He is an IEEE Senior Member and serving as Associate Editor for multiple scientific journals including: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, and Brain-Computer Interfaces.
Lab Members
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Kanhao Zhao (Ph.D. Student, 2021 – present)
Education M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at the University at Buffalo (2018-2020) |
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Xiaoyu Tong (Ph.D. Student, 2021 – present)
Education Research Associate at Neuroscience Institute of NYU Langone Medical Center (2019-2021) |
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Alexander Arteaga (Master’s Student) Education B.S. candidate in Bioengineering at Lehigh University
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Crystal Caldwell (Undergraduate Research Assistant)
Education B.S. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University |
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Bernice Wong (Undergraduate Research Assistant)
Education B.S. candidate in Biocomputational Engineering at Lehigh University |
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Cole Shaub (Undergraduate Research Assistant) Education B.S. candidate in Bioengineering at Lehigh University
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Boris Duka (Undergraduate Research Assistant) Education B.S. candidate in Bioengineering at Lehigh University
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