Research Scientist @ From August 2015 to Present (3 months) Research Assistant @ Research projects on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Numerical Analysis and Parallel Simulation of VLSI Power Grid
• Designed an enlarged-partition based parallel preconditioned conjugate gradient method for VLSI power grid simulation.
• Developed OpenMP and MPI based parallel solvers for power grid simulation in C++ and obtained a speedup of 130X over a state-of-the-art solver.
• Designed and implemented GPU-accelerated parallel algorithm on a CPU-GPU hybrid architecture using C++.
• Designed an improved parser for reading SPICE-like power network circuit files which reduces reading time by 70%. From 2010 to 2015 (5 years) Bryan/College Station, Texas AreaResearch Assistant @ Research projects on Mental Stress Detection Using Physical Signals
• Extracted features from massive data gathered from electromyogram (EMG), galvanic skin response (GSR), and Electrocardiography (ECG) sensors using Matlab.
• Designed and implemented pattern recognition algorithms (PCA, LDA, kNN) to detect human mental stress in daily life.
• Designed electronic circuits and PCB board for wireless physical sensors.
• Implemented firmware programming on microprocessors for wireless physical wearable sensors in C. From August 2008 to July 2010 (2 years) Bryan/College Station, Texas AreaGraduate Research Assistant @ Research projects on Under Water Robotics
• Developed algorithms for motion control of underwater robots.
• Designed embedded hardware for robotic fish and robotic turtle. From September 2005 to July 2008 (2 years 11 months) Beijing City, China
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering @ Texas A&M University From 2008 to 2015 Master of Science (M.S.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering @ Peking University From 2005 to 2008 Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology @ Xi'an Jiaotong University From 2001 to 2005 Le Zhang is skilled in: Computer Science, Parallel Computing, C++, JAVA, Python, MPI, OpenMP, Pthreads, CUDA, Hadoop, Microsoft SQL Server, MATLAB, HTML, CSS, PHP